[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v10] make maps in parallel

Tue May 19 11:55:28 BST 2009

Hi Paul,

> I have just run this against todays great_britain.osm and using
> --max-jobs I had a runtime of 397s and without was 676s. This is on my
> dual core laptop with 4GB RAM. The 2 files created had exactly the same
> number of bytes and in my admittedly very brief and not overly
> scientific testing intertile routing seems to be the same for both. I
> haven't dug any deeper than that though as I'm meant to be working :)

Yes, get back to work, you slacker!

Many thanks for the feedback. That's a good speedup for a 2 core
machine.

When you have the time, please also try the quick-distance patch.

Cheers,

Mark