Actually, Kolivas states in the FAQ that compiling in particular is measured to be significantly faster with BFS: "For years we've been doing our workloads on

Actually, Kolivas states in the FAQ that compiling in particular is measured to be significantly faster with BFS: "For years we've been doing our workloads on linux to have more work than we had CPUs because we thought that the "jobservers" were limited in their ability to utilise the CPUs effectively (so we did make -j6 or more on a quad core machine for example). This scheduler proves that the jobservers weren't at fault at all, because make -j4 on a quad core machine with BFS is faster than any choice of job numbers on CFS." [1] [1] http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt