Parallel ./configure for #Linux or #Unix: I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but ./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5ร longer to configure the build than it does to actually do the build.
https://tavianator.com/2025/configure.html
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