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> On my 4-way ppro, make -j4 is much faster
> than a simple "make" for kernel compilation.
> Almost linearly so -

Make does lots of I/O and also has lots of stuff that can run in parallel
and balance out easily. The real test case for you to try are 5, 6, 7, and 8
copies of seti
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