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There’s a difference between understanding your tool and unnecessary cognitive load.

Make does not provide a sane way to run in parallel. You shouldn’t have to compose a command that parses /proc/cpuinfo to get the desired behavior of “fully utilize my system please”. This is not a detail that is particularly relevant to conditional compilation/dependency trees.

This feels like it’s straight out of the Unix Haters Handbook.

[0]: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf see p186


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