[Nix-dev] Re: How do parallel builds scale?

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:51:56PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
> A build system that is superior in that regard is Boost.Jam, and indeed
> your numbers show that the Boost libraries benefit a *lot* from having
> several cores available.

For what I remember, jam takes almost 2GB of RAM to prepare the boost build. :)
It requires some big system to build boost, mostly because of jam.

In any case, I never used jam beyond building boost.