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Compilation times gains

Altera_Forum
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‎06-30-2010 07:21 PM
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Does anyone have some benchmarking numbers of the gains in compilation times based on the following PC upgrades in %. It will be helpful if at least I know which upgrade make the most difference.  

 

Quartus 9.1 or later  

 

Core I7 vs EXXXX Duo WIN 7 64 or XP  

WIN 7 64 vs WIN XP 

4 GIG RAM vs 8 GIG on WIN 7 64  

Duo Core vs Quad core Exxxx (XP or WIN 7 64)  

Hard drive for OS vs SSD drive for OS (Intel X25) 

Project on a network share vs local drive  

 

 

I am ready to order a new machine and I want to balance cost vs performance.  

 

thanks in advance
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Altera_Forum
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‎06-30-2010 10:01 PM
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Project on a network share vs local drive  

Core I7 vs EXXXX Duo WIN 7 64 or XP  

 

 

I think those two are the most important ones.
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‎07-01-2010 01:47 AM
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My experience has been that extra CPU cores don't help much. Instead, higher memory bandwidth and larger cache sizes seem more important. 

 

One thing I have wondered but never tested is if Linux vs Windows makes any significant difference in compile times.
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