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Re:Intel's Ivy Bridge reviewed by rwmj on Monday April 23, 2012 @01:51PM (#3880043)
Oh sure, I understand it's not in Intel's interests at all. But it would sure make my builds faster if I could default to 'make -j16' (hyperthreads). I guess I'm not the target audience here.
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Re:Intel's Ivy Bridge reviewed by bunderbunder on Monday April 23, 2012 @02:44PM (#3880300)
I suppose it depends on the toolchain, but in my experience build time is mostly dominated by disk I/O nowadays. Even with my code stored on an SSD.
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Re:Intel's Ivy Bridge reviewed by SamReidHughes on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @03:36AM (#3882897)
With C++ it is in my experience solidly CPU-bound, for example on 12 xeon cores, or 24 hyperthreading threads, and one 7200 RPM disk.
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Re:Intel's Ivy Bridge reviewed by freehunter on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @02:27PM (#3885564)
For any compiling work I need to do, I usually offload to my Linode install with 4 Xeons. Your mileage may vary, though.
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