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by wmf 1611 days ago
Since this is HN... compiling.
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Good point, not sure how I didn't see that, I'm a software engineer too.
Compiling is IO/RAM bound. CPU has impact but not much for most cases.
Nah, I only see minimal difference when building on a ram disk (source tree copied there too) compared to a nvme SSD.
You clearly aren't writing c++ :D