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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by throwit2mewillU on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:26AM (#14244584)
My learning with tuning computers in several companies with a lot of money for faster turn around speeds:

1. IO is not as important as your gut feeling tells you (e.g. 5x faster IO often led to <2x faster compiles)

2. Programming languages tout the parallelism horn, but their compilers and tools are really not optimized for many cores.

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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by marcosdumay on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:27PM (#14248448)
For #1, why would it be? Programs are a bunch of text files, read from beginning to end, that almost always fit in a small part of RAM.

2x faster compiles is still too big an improvement, something there is badly optimized.

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