[fpc-pascal] Compiling for SPARC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> 
> Jonas Maebe wrote:

> >> I also want to
> >> try make -j 2 (etc.) to see if I can speed things up a bit since the make
> >> process is painfully slow here.
> >
> > It won't work, the makefiles are not written to support this.

Got there already :-/

> At least the rtl for sparc-solaris has a makefile supporting this.

I find that runtime increases significantly as the paths get longer, so I think
it's safe to assume that the make operation is I/O-bound. In this case I don't
think that increasing the number of jobs (e.g. to be the same as the number of
CPUs) would help significantly, at least in part since this would reduce the
amount of memory available for file caching. In other words probably not worth
fixing (but definately worth documenting).

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