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AMD won Computex by extending AM5 support and launching new AM4 CPUs (www.xda-developers.com)
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...which is why i prefer AM for hardware longevity.

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[–] mholiv 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it depends on what you’re working on. If you’re working on some JavaScript web app you could say that CPUs are “good enough”. But even then larger more complicated apps will get annoyingly slow to “compile”.

It’s when you are working with larger and more complicated Rust or C or whatever code bases that compile time matters.

This all being said for me CPU important is a good thing. It was good in the 90s and it’s good now.

[–] grue 1 points 1 week ago

But even then larger more complicated apps will get annoyingly slow to “compile”.

It’s when you are working with larger and more complicated Rust or C or whatever code bases that compile time matters.

If you are in the middle of doing a unit of work, iteratively making small changes to the code, compiling, and testing them, those compile times should be small too. If a small change in one file triggers your entire project to recompile, you fucked up the Makefile or structured the whole program poorly or something like that. There’s something wrong that a faster CPU will only mask, not fix.