[MPlayer-users] Running make --jobs=n for MPlayer compile?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2008-11-10 00:07, andrew wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have been experimenting a little with compiling MPlayer with make's
>--jobs=n option. For example:
>
>+---------
>./configure
>make --jobs=6
>su
>make install
>+-------
>
>This compiles MPlayer much faster on a dual-core processor machine
>with not many other processes going on. Can I ask if many people have
>used this option on uni / multi processor machines with MPlayer and
>what sort of results have been achieved?

Why ask to ask if you could just ask...
The speedup is usually linear up to a certain limit induced by
HW latency (or just not having all cores free).
So what? It's not like make -j was invented just a week ago.