Switch the default for --experimental_multi_threaded_digest
It looks like this is fairly widely used now, and we recommend users who are still on spinning platters to upgrade their workstation. :-P
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@@ -25,12 +25,11 @@ import com.google.devtools.common.options.OptionsBase;
public class SsdOptions extends OptionsBase {
@Option(
name = "experimental_multi_threaded_digest",
- defaultValue = "false",
+ defaultValue = "true",
documentationCategory = OptionDocumentationCategory.UNCATEGORIZED,
effectTags = {OptionEffectTag.UNKNOWN},
help =
- "Whether to always compute MD5 digests of files with multiple threads. Might improve "
- + "performance when using an SSD."
- )
+ "Whether to always compute MD5 digests of files with multiple threads. Setting this to "
+ + "false may improve performance when using a spinning platter.")
public boolean experimentalMultiThreadedDigest;
}
