Re:Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD
by NotSammyHagar on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:40AM
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No, they were almost certainly talking about some part of their build process limited it to a few processes (like maybe a 'make -k 6' limitation), or something that could be easily parallelized.
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Re:Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD
by Someone1234 on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:22AM
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It was worse than even that, several parts of the build process were fully sequential. I only got benefit of multiple cores at all because the tooling in those sequential steps were utilizing it, or related system services were.
But, yes, I also did change at least one config to allow it to spawn more than 2 threads.