[ale] compiled system calls versus shell scripts

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> I think the speedup comes from the fact that if everything is done
> serially, you can't sneak in some computing amongst disk i/o waits, for
> instance.  The objective seems to be to let the kernel and its MM to
> make the best of the barrage.

Okay, call it ignorance.  How is the parallel make process any different 
then say:

foo & bar

At the shell level 'foo & bar' run parallel.

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