[arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

[Troy Engel]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
>
> Now that xz is multithreaded (not available in Arch Repos yet); I was
> wondering if package building and installing would, by default,
> utilize multiple threads.

You can do it already - just set the environment variable XZ_OPTS="-T
x" (where x is the number of threads) to support it once your xz
upgrades. See man xz(1) under ENVIRONMENT.

-te