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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by fMwhy on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:27AM (#29777964)
> # Performance counter stats for 'make -j96 vmlinux'

-j96 ...you flexing bruh ???

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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by RandomBK on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:09AM (#29778792)
Shouldn't be too surprising that one of the core devs at the heart of modern computing infra has a Threadripper...
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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by bombcar on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:06AM (#29780863)
More importantly it shows the gains when already massively parallel (and perhaps on a single or dual core you don’t get as much gains as it doesn’t matter that the CPU has to go in order when you only have a few).
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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by stjohnswarts on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:20AM (#29792273)
j96 really isn't that big of a deal these days if you have access to server hardware.
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