Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Sat Feb 2 16:08:51 PST 2008


    Ryan> As ports are tested, "use_parallel_build yes" is added to the
    Ryan> portfile. Then MacPorts will build those ports using -j$jobs
    Ryan> (where $jobs is the number of CPU cores in your computer). This
    Ryan> was added for MacPorts 1.6.

Excellent, thanks.  That makes it transparent even. ;-)

Skip


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