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authorDaniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>2003-06-20 11:18:03 +0000
committerGerald Pfeifer <gerald@gcc.gnu.org>2003-06-20 11:18:03 +0000
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install.texi (Building): Correct and improve statement about parallel builds.
* doc/install.texi (Building): Correct and improve statement about parallel builds. Co-Authored-By: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> From-SVN: r68257
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+2003-06-20 Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
+ Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
+
+ * doc/install.texi (Building): Correct and improve statement
+ about parallel builds.
+
2003-06-20 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* c-common.c: Change _Bool to bool reverting part of the last
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index f870161..83ebbb1 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -1318,12 +1318,13 @@ Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
@section Building in parallel
-If you have a multiprocessor system you can use @samp{make bootstrap
-MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2} or just @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap}
-for GNU Make 3.79 and above instead of just @samp{make bootstrap}
-when building GCC@. You can use a bigger number instead of two if
-you like. In most cases, it won't help to use a number bigger than
-the number of processors in your machine.
+You can use @samp{make bootstrap MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2}, or just
+@samp{make -j 2 bootstrap} for GNU Make 3.79 and above, instead of
+@samp{make bootstrap} to build GCC in parallel.
+You can also specify a bigger number, and in most cases using a value
+greater than the number of processors in your machine will result in
+fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus improving overall throughput;
+this is especially true for slow drives and network filesystems.
@section Building the Ada compiler