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Re:Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to... by farresito on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:17PM (#13619402)
Do SSDs make any noticeable difference? I think I once read a post (maybe from Joel) where they bought SSDs and the difference in compilation time was negligible.
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Re:Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to... by sqeaky on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:36PM (#13619526)
I think it might even depend on the build complexity. It is possible to write code that requires insane amount of CPU time with the write (wrong?!) kind of C++ template metaprogramming.
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Re:Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to... by dman on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:38PM (#13619541)
At work my compile times went down by 70% on switching to a SSD.
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Re:Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to... by sqeaky on Friday February 10, 2017 @06:08PM (#13619724)
What language? How big of a build? Is your build too large to fit in RAM?
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Re:Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to... by dman on Friday February 10, 2017 @06:23PM (#13619807)
C++ on windows. Lets just say that the number of things hooking into file modified notifications (anti viruses etc) are largely the culprit.
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