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authorHeiko Thiel <heiko.thiel@hpi.de>2022-03-07 12:07:11 +0100
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@@ -102,8 +102,9 @@ This is an example work-flow and configuration to get and build the LLVM source:
* Running a serial build will be **slow**. To improve speed, try running a
parallel build. That's done by default in Ninja; for ``make``, use the option
- ``-j NNN``, where ``NNN`` is the number of parallel jobs, e.g. the number of
- CPUs you have.
+ ``-j NNN``, where ``NNN`` is the number of parallel jobs to run.
+ In most cases, you get the best performance if you specify the number of CPU threads you have.
+ On some Unix systems, you can specify this with ``-j$(nproc)``.
* For more information see [CMake](https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html)