Compiling with node-gyp in parallel

[AT]

I've tried searching for an answer to this but couldn't come up with anything - is there a way to have npm compile native addons with node-gyp, in parallel?

I've developing a native addon and in my Gruntfile I use the following configuration:

build: {

  command: function() {

    var os = require('os');

    return 'node-gyp build --debug --jobs ' + os.cpus().length;

  },

},

and it works great for development. I'd like end-users who install my addon to have the same speedup when they install with `npm install`. Is this possible?

[mscdex]

On Thursday, June 26, 2014 5:03:34 PM UTC-4, AT wrote:

and it works great for development. I'd like end-users who install my addon to have the same speedup when they install with `npm install`. Is this possible?

Not really. I usually just have the environment variable `JOBS` set to the number of cores (in my bashrc for example), that way all compilation gets finished faster and I never have to remember to set `--jobs` manually.

[Nathan Rajlich]

Another option is to encourage users to run `npm config set jobs 8` (replace 8 with an appropriate number of CPU cores to use in parallel).

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