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That's great, however newer CPUs aren't something to be excited for 🤷♂️
EDIT: I was referring to new AM4 ones.
For me they are. Faster compile times means I can iterate and test things faster.
If you do dev work on a day to day basis a newer faster cpu makes a major difference.
This ain't the '90s anymore; CPUs have been fast for a while now. If your mid-development partial compilation time isn't basically negligible with the CPUs we already have, your build script is probably fucked up or the module you're working on is way too large. You should rarely be working on something with such cross-cutting concerns that you legitimately need to recompile vast swathes of the codebase at once.
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.
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.