[CMake] Blog on parallel builds with CMake

[Tim Gallagher]

Good read.

The only suggestion I would make is for Unix Makefiles, rather than running 'make -jN' is to run 'make -j -lN' which tells make to use as many cores until the load is greater than N.

This is nice because if I have a 12 core system, I can do 'make -j -l12' and it will build using 12 if I'm not doing anything else. But if I'm, say, looking at data in Paraview and that's using up a core, then make will only take 11 cores and not bog my system down. It makes it much nicer if you are doing multiple things on the same machine doing the compilation.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hoffman" <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
To: "cmake" <cmake at cmake.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:28:46 PM
Subject: [CMake] Blog on parallel builds with CMake

I just put up a blog about parallel builds with CMake, that might be of 
interest to folks on the list:

http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/434

-Bill
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