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Created December 19, 2017 14:19
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Speed up Perl test runs on modern CPUs
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# Add this line to your ~/.bashrc file, or equivalent for your Linux distribution
export HARNESS_OPTIONS=j$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo):c
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dginev commented Dec 19, 2017

E.g. on a threadripper 1950x, this will run the Perl test harness with j32 jobs, leading to e.g. a ~5x speedup for the LaTeXML test suite - from 167s to 38s

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