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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review by user5994461 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:56PM (#14089946)
C, C++. Compilation can be multi threaded. Linking is inherently mono threaded. A number of optimizations flags are mono threaded (and take very long).

Python. Lint is mono threaded. The virtualenv setup is mono threaded (running requirements.txt).

Java. Mono threaded for package generation (jar files). Not sure about compilation and running tests. Most of Eclipse is mono threaded (last I used it) like indexing and rendering and auto completion.

Outside of that, opening any IDE, tool, application or browser is a mostly single threaded operation. The rendering of most GUI is also single threaded.

Re:AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review by neilc on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:33PM (#14093135)
> Linking is inherently mono threaded.

This is actually not the case -- modern linkers (e.g., lld) can take advantage of multiple cores.

https://lld.llvm.org/

Re:AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review by gpderetta on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:06AM (#14096518)
so can the 'gold' linker.
Re:AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review by neilc on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:14PM (#14108932)
Interesting -- do you have a link on this?