<rant> D's makefiles... </rant>

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 08:53 +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> The "-j" option should be there for tweaking only, by default I 
> expect a modern tool to just use as many threads as I have cores. 
> Which of course is exactly what Ninja does.

N-1 not N on a system you are using as a workstation. N on a compiler 
server, no problem.

Waf chooses N and it makes the workstation unusable whilst the 
compilation is happening.
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