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Expand Up @@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ If you have at least 16 GB of RAM, you can speed up compilation by running:

make html SPHINXOPTS=-j2

You can use ``-j auto`` to use all available CPU threads, but this can use a lot
of RAM if you have a lot of CPU threads. For instance, on a system with 32 CPU
threads, ``-j auto`` (which corresponds to ``-j 32`` here) can require 20+ GB of
RAM for Sphinx alone.

Specifying a list of files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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