[nwallin]

> Not every workload is memory bandwidth bound like his "make -j16" compile.

He actually did `make -j32`, not 16. Which is going to absolutely devastate the cache.

`make -j<number of cores x 2>` was a good rule of thumb back when you had 1/2/4 physical CPUs with their own sockets on a motherboard and spinning rust hard disks. A lot of "compilation" time was reading the source code off the disk. But it doesn't make any sense anymore with so many cores, hyperthreading, and SSDs that serve you the file in milliseconds.

If he's bandwidth limited, he would gain a significant performance improvement by reducing the number of processes.

[thyrsus]

I'd reserve judgement until I saw measurements. Maybe all 32 jobs are using the same cpp/gcc/asm/ld binaries (or whatever the stack is these days) which never get evicted. And I presume this is running under DragonFly BSD whose design goals include aggressive SMP support, so things might be different there. I don't know.