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usertests Saw this earlier. There are a lot of caveats, like the test system having 128 cores, but Zen 6 and Nova Lake are going to bring big multi-threaded increases to consumer sockets. And if you're sitting the generation out because of high DDR5 prices, Zen 7 should bring another +33% to core counts, and Hammer Lake should bring back SMT. Reply
derekullo Wait a second! Are you saying 256 threads, 576 Gigabytes a second of memory bandwidth and 14 gigabytes a second of SSD bandwidth allows you to compile faster? Reply
John musbach derekullo said: Wait a second! Are you saying 256 threads, 576 Gigabytes a second of memory bandwidth and 14 gigabytes a second of SSD bandwidth allows you to compile faster? Yeah I think that's what they're saying Reply
ejolson The news is that many of the single-threaded bottlenecks have been removed from the Linux kernel build chain so it scales better to multi-core systems. For other software projects there may be configure scripts and build dependencies that prevent effective parallel scaling. In those cases, faster cores win over more cores. It would be interesting to report the average percent CPU use for a kernel build running on a 128 core workstation. For a less anecdotal story one could measure average percent CPU use versus number N of available cores for values of N ranging from 1 to 128. Reply
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