[keldaris]

The default answer is the new Threadripper - which doesn't have a confirmed release date yet, but should be out within the next 3-6 months. However, if you really care about optimizing for that workload, the exact answer depends on the codebase(s) you're dealing with because the time spent linking varies significantly.

For instance, if you're working on a large C++ codebase with incremental compilation, rarely do full recompiles and heavily rely on link time and profile guided optimizations, I can see a case where a heavily tuned Cascade Lake X makes a lot of sense (overclock the mesh, tune the memory latencies and get enough cooling to sustain the single core boost as high as you can). It's actually one of the few usecases (AVX-512 being another) where I still see a niche for Intel CPUs purely based on technical merit... saying that still feels weird, but that's where we are now.