[Qt-creator] parallel processing in make

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 09:48:47AM +0200, eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
> 
> On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:49 AM, ext Coda Highland wrote:
> 
> > I can't imagine why Creator couldn't guess at a default value
> > anyway; just ask QThreadPool what the ideal number of threads is. :P
> 
> Actually I can't imagine why make couldn't guess at a default value by
> checking the number of cores :P

I have (at work...) alias make='make -j 30'. Overwriting that with
'make -j 2' or such "just because there was no -j on the commandline"
might be counterproductive.

For me it's one of the cases where trying to be "clever" has a high
potential to hurt someone...

Andre'