Checked into GIT - makes a HUGE difference on a 12 CPU Ryzen 7. I always had to disable-hidepth when building and now I do not. Tested on Debian 9.1 and Ubuntu 16 multicpu desktop as well as 2 laptops at Fedora 32 and Fedora 42 (both 12 cpu ryzen). On my normal laptop, compile time took 43 minutes without the mod and 21 minutes with the mod. Since I build the whole sheband several times a day sometimes, it really makes my life easier. Thanks to Andrew.

Also, checked into GIT some minor text changes to include some spelling corrections.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 2:51 PM Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:40 AM Andrew Randrianasulu
<randrianasulu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After reading
>
> https://flameeyes.blog/2010/10/18/tell-tale-signs-that-your-makefile-is-broken/
>
> I tried to modify our multilib.sh script, and apparently just adding
> "-j" to make commands made them run nasm jobs on all cores (as defined
> in previous makefile)
>
> Try attached patch and see if it improves build times without breaking build

On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with make 4.1 it was not working, so I added
$(nproc) to all 3 make commands

worked on 2-cpu VM, but I wonder if it will work ok on much bigger machines?