Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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Could b2 default to -jX where X is the number of cores?

This would be unexpected

Why?

AFAIK, other build systems do not build in parallel by default.

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and detrimental if there is not enough RAM.

How much RAM is needed?

This heavily depends on the compiler and libraries compiled. I don't have concrete numbers now but from my memory -j8 with MSVC exceeded 4GiB at certain points. AFAIR, Intel compiler was especially hungry for memory.