[Gimp-developer] Using Parallel Make

[Chris Moller]

"make -j" without a numeric argument will overwhelm most machines fairly
quickly in complex makes.  Since you're running a dual-core machine, try
"make -j3" or "make -j4".  This will limit the number of concurrent
processes to something reasonable and provide decent load balancing
between processing and i/o.  (I haven't looked at the gimp Makefiles
recently, but running gcc with the -pipe option might help performance,
at least on Linux systems--I haven't a clue about Windows systems.)

Don Rozenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently acquired a new PC with a dual core chip running Kubuntu 
> Feisty Fawn. So when I last tried to build Gimp, version 2.3.18, I used 
> "make -j" and the build terminated with an error in just a few seconds.  
> If I just use the command "make",  the build completes successfully in 
> about 10 minutes. 
>
> Reading up on parallel make, I conclude that the Gimp makefile is not up 
> to snuff for doing a parallel make.  Naively perhaps, I think that is a 
> shame because I bet a lot of people would save a lot of time if they 
> could do parallel makes.  Has anyone looked at doing parallel builds of 
> Gimp?
>
>
> Regards,
> Don
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