[Nix-dev] Re: Parallel building support, 2nd attempt

[Jeff Johnson]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Peter Simons wrote:

> Hi Eelco,
> 
>> So a more precise name would be "--max-internal-parallelism" but
>> that's rather wordy, and "--max-jobs" is already taken :-)
>> 
>> Any suggestions for a short name?
> 
> I'm not too happy with the name "build-cores" either, mostly because
> it's virtually impossible for users to tell the difference between that
> option and "build-max-jobs". The semantic purpose of those two values
> clearly overlaps.
> 
> One alternative I can think of is "build-threads". Not sure whether
> that's much better, though.
> 

How about "usercores" or "ucores"? That should be enough of a hint
to drop the hardware association.

Sad that "jobs" has already been squatted ... "jobs" would have been
a perfect name.

hth

73 de Jeff