Compiling for Optimum Speed

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Old thread but I've been away for a while. When you compile make sure to toss in your -jx flag. That alone will get a lot more work when you're doing the work.

To figure out the value of x tale the number of cpu threads and add 1 to it. So a single core cpu with no hyperthreading gets make -j2, a quad core would get -j5, and so on. Now note this will totally peg your machine while it's doing this, so you may step back one or two numbers if you run anything else on the box, like apache.