[Qt-creator] Sensible make -j X?

[Mohammad Mirzadeh]

I'm not sure if there's an option to do it in the .pro but if you open the
projects tab in QtCreator you can pass extra options to make. I always pass
-j 8 on my quad-core machine and it works just fine.

On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Oct 22, 2015 19:16, "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jhihn at gmx.com');>> wrote:
> >
> > In this world, where both phones and computers are averaging 4 cores (or
> more) does it make sense to ever not default make to 1 thread? I can
> understand that some situations can't have multi-threaded builds, but I
> believe they are in the minority now. I find that a good value for -j is
> N*2 where N is the number of cores (since there is a lot of i/o delay from
> loading all the headers)
> >
> > It would be nice if this was populated from the get-go. I believe it's
> stored in the .user file? Is there a way to set it in the .pro file? I work
> in iOS/Android/Desktop, so it's kinda silly to have to set this 6 times
> (debug/release) in the same project!
> >
>
> If you are using CMake you can switch to ninja instead of make.
>
> Ninja automatically uses all of your machine's computing power.
>
> Cheers,
> Cristian.
>


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