Use nproc(1) to determine number of make jobs

jlsutherland / doc2text

Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk. Python module available via pip.

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Use nproc(1) to determine number of make jobs #12

Closed jwilk closed 8 years ago

jlsutherland commented 8 years ago

Hi @jwilk, thanks for the PR. A quick thought.

Though I like the idea of speeding up the build, I'm not sure how I feel about eating up all of the user's avail procs by default. It might result in surprising lag.

Further, inexperienced users might experience greater difficulty with the quick-install script.

What is your intuition re: these points?

jwilk commented 8 years ago

I submitted the PR because the current -j4 was particularly bad choice on my single-core, memory-starved machine. But I appreciate that using all CPU cores might not necessarily be a good idea either. Feel free to close the PR.

jlsutherland commented 8 years ago

That makes sense. Thank you again :).

If you don't mind me asking, what is the box? RPi equivalent?