Best CPUs for speeding up compiling times of C++ w/ DistGCC
- by Jay
I'm putting together a distributed build farm with DistGCC to speed up our teams compile times and just looking for thoughts on which processors to use in the hosts.
Are we going to get a noticeable decrease in time using 8 cores vs. 4-hyperthreaded cores?
Big difference in time between i7 and Xeon? etc, etc.
Just need advice from people who've put together kick-a build clusters.
We've got a majority of the normal things to speed up builds in place (pre-compiled headers, ccache, local gigabit connections between them, tons of ram, etc) so please just give advice on the best processor to use. And money is a factor, but anythings doable if the performance increase is noticeable.
Thanks.
Jay