My intuitive hunch is that memory speed is going to affect compilation speeds a lot as well, so that might be factored into the question as well. Adding cores has no value unless you can keep them well fed with input they can compile.
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:46 PM Marvin Stenger <marvin.stenge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Something you have to consider, this will probably make it into go 1.9: > https://go-review.googlesource.com/?polygerrit=0#/c/40693/ > > > Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2017 11:15:03 UTC+2 schrieb slinso: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm interested in the compiler performance of different cpus. How much >> impact has the number of cores? Or is higher frequency with a few cores >> better regarding compile time / $. >> Maybe someone already owns a new ryzen cpu. Is it worth buying a highend >> Intel cpu (i7 or xeon) for 1000$ or is the highend AMD for 500$ maybe even >> better for go. >> My C++ projects would benefit the most from more cores. But that's >> something different because we are talking about 10 minutes or more compile >> time. >> >> I think using Dave Cheneys compiler benchmarks (benchkube >> <https://github.com/davecheney/benchkube>) and (benchjuju >> <https://github.com/davecheney/benchjuju>) should provide solid base >> numbers for the performance. Of course smaller projects could behave >> differently. But if a small project compiles in 1s or 2s doesn't matter >> that much to the development cycle. >> I have not moved the codebase to a ramdisk, because i would like to see >> numbers from normal dev setups. >> >> >> go version go1.8.1 linux/amd64 >> >> cat /proc/cpuinfo | head | grep "model name" >> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700T CPU @ 2.80GHz >> RAM: 16GB >> Disk: Samsung 850 Evo >> >> avg. runtime: >> benchjuju: 23.7s >> benchkube: 21.3s >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
