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Compilation times gains

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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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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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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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