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		saboot on March 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU make insanity: finding the value of the -j par... It will reduce total compile times for large projects by running make in parallel. Files dont compile faster, but make will act (compile) on N files at the same time together.

babuskov on March 28, 2015 [–]

I didn't downvote you, but I assume why it happened: What you wrote is correct, but does not answer the question.

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