Document -j auto in Building the manual
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I was considering defaulting to
-j2or even-j3, but Windows systems with 8 GB of RAM would likely struggle with this.In the meantime, it's worth documenting Sphinx's
-j autofor people with lots of RAM. On a system with 32 threads, a full cleanmake htmlbuild can peak to more than 20 GB of RAM for Sphinx itself:With
-j autoon an Intel Core i9-13900K, the documentation builds in 1m16s, whereas-j4requires 4m15s.