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Re:Apple supercharges 24‑inch iMac with new M3 chip by jwells89 on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:13PM (#38079816)
For dev work I’d think where more muscle starts to make a big difference is with gargantuan codebases, think Chrome or Firefox or something where a full compile takes an hour.
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Re:Apple supercharges 24‑inch iMac with new M3 chip by keyle on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:30PM (#38079941)
Typically people have build servers for large compile jobs, and I hope for their sake that they have some incremental compile (ninja!) facilities!

I remember though, compiling UE4 in 2016, from scratch, was a half-day job on my non-potato PC.

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Re:Apple supercharges 24‑inch iMac with new M3 chip by pjmlp on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:12PM (#38089927)
In 2000, building our C codebase across Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows 2000/NT for a new release took about a full day.

Straight C code, so no templates or whatever else traditionaly slows down C++ codebases.

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Re:Apple supercharges 24‑inch iMac with new M3 chip by skydhash on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:21PM (#38079871)
Yeah, but I'd prefer to have a dedicated build server if I ever need to do this (or renting something from the cloud).
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