[OE-core] for a quad-core machine, shouldn't parallelism be set to 8?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Elvis Dowson wrote:

> Hi Robert,

> On my i7 quad core machine, I've set both values to 6. Setting it to
> 6 appears to be nearly the same as setting it to 8, I dare say a
> marginally faster by a minute. I can build core image console in
> around 22 minutes.
>
> Elvis

  i recall someone (richard purdie?) once benchmarked to check the
benefits of increasing parallelism and while it's obvious you'll hit
the wall eventually, it would still be nice for the documentation to
be consistent.

rday

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