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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by lumost on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:01PM (#26019055)
You know I wonder how much of an impact this has had on the recent move back to statically typed and compiled languages vs. interpreted languages. I had assumed most of the compilation speedups were due to enhancements to the compiler toolchain - but my local laptop moving from 100 IOPS to > 100k IOPS and 3GB/s throughput may have more to do with it.
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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by rbanffy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:48AM (#26024098)
CPUs got faster too. My MacBook pro is a lot faster than the 6yo top of the line Mac Mini.

In fact, if compile times are being limited by storage there should be some quick wins in configuration terms - building intermediates to RAM, cache warming, etc - that can enable better performance than faster storage.

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