RFR: 8270438: "Cores to use" output in configure is misleading

Mon Aug 30 13:29:33 UTC 2021

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:06:19 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Description from the bug:
> 
> When building the JDK and running `configure` the output includes (example): 
> 
> Build performance summary: 
>  * Cores to use: 4 
>  * Memory limit: 32768 MB 
> 
> 
> The "Cores to use" value is misleading; it is not actually the number of cores specified using `--with-num-cores`, but instead the number of jobs, which (unless explicitly specified), is calculated based on the available memory and the number of cores.

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5301