For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.
For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.
I recently discovered
emerge --jobs 8 --load-average 8
instead of justmake -j8
. Not gonna help much on a 900MHz pentium, but it has really sped up my build times.Me: Use threads!
Single core CPU: Do I look like a loom to you?