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Faster is usually better but it's worth pointing out: If a task took a whole day, you wouldn't burn the day twiddling your thumbs - you'd context switch and do something else. You'd save long compilation steps to late day so that you could come back tomorrow, not wasting time. For many people, 15 minutes is not worth switching but 1 hour wait time is.

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Recently got access to a new HW platform with 256 cores CPU, 512M of L3, 512G/1TB of RAM. The speed of that thing compiling the linux kernel and run certain AI testing are amazing. One can try out different experiments so much faster.

Used to working diff company with server farms for compiling. Even with the servers, compiling the 26G software pkg took 4 hours. When it is high noon and everyone was using it. I have seen compile jobs can last 8+ hours. There a few times that by the time compile is done, I have completely context switch out and forgot what I need to debug.