On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:43 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> This is a good thing because it allows WAF much more freedom to
> schedule object build tasks in parallel, unlike make which can only
> parallelize tasks within a single subdirectory. So, unlike make, waf
> -j2 on a dual core processor really uses both processors most of the
> time, while make -j2 will often have to wait for a subdir to finish
> building before moving on to the next subdir.
Of course, make -j2 will mean that two objects are built simultaneously
in each subdirectory. I routinely build large projects such as
evolution-data-server with -j4 and appreciate the massive speed
increase.
Ross
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