@end ifset
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-@c 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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+@c IMPORTANT: whenever you modify this file, run `install.texi2html' to
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+@c Do not use @footnote{} in this file as it breaks install.texi2html!
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@c Include everything if we're not making html
@ifnothtml
@set indexhtml
@c Part 2 Summary Description and Copyright
@copying
Copyright @copyright{} 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
-1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@sp 1
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
@section Building in parallel
-You can use @samp{make -j 2}@footnote{Only supported by GNU Make 3.79
- and above, which is anyway necessary to build GCC.}, instead of @samp{make},
-to build GCC in parallel. You can also specify a bigger number, and
+GNU Make 3.79 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
+building in parallel. To activate this, you can use @samp{make -j 2}
+instead of @samp{make}. You can also specify a bigger number, and
in most cases using a value greater than the number of processors in
your machine will result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus
improving overall throughput; this is especially true for slow drives