[mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1057: Add --max-jobs option to request concurrent processing of maps.

Wed Jun 3 11:11:11 BST 2009

Thanks a lot!

Mark Burton wrote:
> Hi Lambertus,
> 
>> Specifying or specifically not specifying? I'm confused: What should be 
>> done to get one thread on a single core machine, or two threads on a 
>> dual core?
> 
> 
> Use --max-jobs.
> 
> To summarise:
> 
> If --max-jobs is not specified, you get 1 thread no matter how many
> cores you have.
> 
> If --max-jobs is specified, you get as many threads as you have cores.
> 
> If --max-jobs=N is specified, you get N threads.
> 
> The help blurb says this in another way.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
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