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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by gt0 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:32PM (#47328458)
I was really surprised by the s390x performance, but I also don't really understand why there are build time listed by architecture, not the actual processors.
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by kpil on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:56PM (#47329270)
What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling.

The cores are in my experience moderately fast at most. Note that there are a lot of licencing options and I think some are speed-capped - but I don't think that applies to IFL - a standard CPU licence-restricted to only run linux.

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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by burntoutgray on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:59PM (#47330682)
I thought I read somewhere that Z CPUs run at 5GHz ??
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by rbanffy on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:51PM (#47328641)
Probably because that's just the infrastructure they have.
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Re:RISC-V Is Sloooow by pantalaimon on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:42PM (#47329137)
i686 builds even faster
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