On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But what about 'make check' for GCC? Does > > > > make -j5 check > > use 5 subprocesses to run the testsuite? > > No, not exactly. It effectively controls how many languages will be > tested in parallel. The parallelism is implemented for each > language's make check-* target, using a separate scratch testsuite/ > subdirectory for each test run.
OK, Ben, for this layman and the bottom line: will doing make -jN+ for a N-processor host give a theoretical 1/O(N) speed-up for the test cycle for --enable-languages=all? Thanks. -Tom _______________________________________________ DejaGnu mailing list DejaGnu@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dejagnu
