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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:

> Looking at some graphics:
> http://hubble.gforge.inria.fr/parallel-builds.html
>
> You plot "number of packages" against "speedup"
> without saying which packages you've used.

It’s all the packages that have been built, i.e., all those listed at
<http://hubble.gforge.inria.fr/parallel-build-details.html> (or a subset
thereof, as indicated.)

> Without asking Firefox to highlight cells I was not able to read
> anything. its because "2m 18s" is displayed using two rows.
> You can enhance this easily by forcing col width ensuring that no line
> breaks occur or use  white-space: nowrap; or such.

Hmm right.

Thanks,
Ludo’.