maybe not twice as fast, but my favorite open source program's ./configure runs in 2.43s with the taskset hack (best of 8) and 3.40s without it (best of 8). Th

maybe not twice as fast, but my favorite open source program's ./configure runs in 2.43s with the taskset hack (best of 8) and 3.40s without it (best of 8). That's just a 28% improvement, but it's enough to make me consider adding 'taskset -pc 0 $$ > /dev/null 2>&1' just after AC_INIT.