Re: 2.6.8.1-mm3

[Anton Blanchard]

> Parallel compilation is an extremely poor benchmark in general, as the
> workload is incapable of being effectively scaled to system sizes, the
> linking phase is inherently unparallelizable and the compilation phase
> too parallelizable to actually stress anything. There is also precisely
> zero relevance the benchmark has to anything real users would do.

I spend most of my life compiling kernels and I consider myself a real
user :)

Anton
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