waf default number of jobs

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Thu Oct 1 20:00:12 UTC 2020


On 01/10/2020 21:53, Joel Sherrill wrote:

> + make -j24
>
> real    1m53.064s
> user    7m14.675s
> sys     1m45.913s
> .....
>
> + ./waf -j 24
>
> real    1m1.404s
> user    0m9.601s
> sys     0m1.547s
>
> Notice how the build time for waf is 50 seconds faster but that doesn't
> match the user and system time. Perhaps the Python jobs model doesn't
> keep them as children the same way so time doesn't get to count them.
make uses threads, Python uses processes?


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