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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.
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.