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

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