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MAC: speed up macports install sessions

Macports does compile things to install from source. Read on how to speed up things.

What

Macports uses per default only one core during make runs. This is suboptimal on today's dual-core CPUs.

OK, how to change this?

Go to your /opt/local/etc/macports directory and edit the macports.conf. Add the following option:

buildmakejobs 2

Enjoy.

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