Re: gfortran, g95, and dual-core

Charles Russell wrote:
Tim Prince wrote:

In my experience Cygwin
make -j 2, if not overdone, brings most of the relative speed increase
seen on linux.

Are you speaking of a dual-core machine? Is that where the 2 comes from?

What does "overdone" mean?
Cygwin isn't tolerant of an unlimited number of make threads (make -j)
or even twice as many threads as pseudo-processors. 2 or 3 work fine on
a single core HT, for those of us whose 32-bit Windows boxes are long in
the tooth.
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