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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:33:00 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 28/03/2025 20:41, Scott Lurndal wrote:
[...]
>> The gnu compiler is not multithreaded.  The single thread was
>> compute bound for 13 minutes and 46 seconds.
>
> So what was that -j96 about?

"-j96" is an option to GNU make, not to the compiler.  It might invoke
gcc multiple times in parallel, but each invocation of gcc will still be
single-threaded.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */