Compiling FreeBSD updayes using the -j flag
In the FreeBSD handbook, on the section about updating your system, there is a sectionabout how to speed up the buolding of the system from source. Since building the entire system fromsource can require hundreds of thousands of files to be compiled, this can take hours or even days on slower computers from yesteryear. Now, computers are fast enough to make it painless even if you do not use the -j flags, which allows generating and maintaining multiple simultaneous compilation threads.
The handbook recommends using -j4, which will start four different compilation threads running at the same time. I have, however, noticed that even on uniprocessor computers, this is still a good way to significantly increase build times.