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

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 12:07:18 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> 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.

That's the typical distinction between batch and interactive 
processes; today's schedulers shouldn't have trouble handling 
this.  If they do, there's still process priorities/nice values 
to adjust.