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diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 50cb43b218..0eba93e4ff 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -399,6 +399,24 @@ if selected_platform in platform_list:
env = env_base.Clone()
+ # Default num_jobs to local cpu count if not user specified.
+ # SCons has a peculiarity where user-specified options won't be overridden
+ # by SetOption, so we can rely on this to know if we should use our default.
+ initial_num_jobs = env.GetOption("num_jobs")
+ altered_num_jobs = initial_num_jobs + 1
+ env.SetOption("num_jobs", altered_num_jobs)
+ if env.GetOption("num_jobs") == altered_num_jobs:
+ cpu_count = os.cpu_count()
+ if cpu_count is None:
+ print("Couldn't auto-detect CPU count to configure build parallelism. Specify it with the -j argument.")
+ else:
+ safer_cpu_count = cpu_count if cpu_count <= 4 else cpu_count - 1
+ print(
+ "Auto-detected %d CPU cores available for build parallelism. Using %d cores by default. You can override it with the -j argument."
+ % (cpu_count, safer_cpu_count)
+ )
+ env.SetOption("num_jobs", safer_cpu_count)
+
if env["compiledb"]:
# Generating the compilation DB (`compile_commands.json`) requires SCons 4.0.0 or later.
from SCons import __version__ as scons_raw_version