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Subject: gprbuild -j8 on Windows 8.1?
From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Date: 2019-06-12T20:10:02-07:00
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I'm using GNAT Community 2018.

I have a main program that takes an annoyingly long time to compile, so I tried 

gprbuild -j8

But it's no faster, and Windows Task Manager says it's using only one processor.

Is this just broken on Windows?

Does using AdaCores "bash implemented in Ada" help?

--  Stephe