[throwaway81523]

How many times are they going to repeat the search phrases like "one billion lines"? It's reached the point where SEO obstructs human readability. It was cool that Object Pascal (maybe a descendant of Turbo Pascal) compiled 1e9 lines of Pascal in 5 minutes on the 64 core box. Scrolling way through the article, it looks like they had enough trouble setting up their parallel Windows C++ build environment on 64 cores that they ended up running 4 instances on 16 cores each, and splitting the source files among the instances. The build then took about 15 minutes on 64 cores, which is faster than I'd have expected.

This all seems kind of pointless since distributed C++ compilation has been a thing for decades, so they could have used a cluster of Ryzens instead of "zowie look at our huge expensive single box".