I may do some testing in the a close future and report here. I will either
do it in our project or in a an open-source project that's "relevant" to
show real-world numbers. Do you have an idea of such project? I think I
will try to bench compilation time in advanced mode with a different number
of cores activated by BIOS (I will soon have a 16C/32T machine, I hope the
BIOS will allow me to deactivate some of them).
Khalid aka DjebbZ
@Dj3bbZ


On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:58 AM Thomas Heller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Depends on the size I'd say but in theory yes. Lots of things factor into
> the compilation times, even tiny namespaces can take a long time to compile
> if some macro just takes a long time to do its thing.
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 11:18:21 AM UTC+1, Khalid Jebbari wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the detailed answer. Does it somewhat mean that splitting code
>> into smaller namespaces can achieve faster compilation thanks to
>> parallelization ?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:43 AM Thomas Heller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It depends on the namespaces used. In general a CLJS namespaces can only
>>> be compiled once all its dependencies have been compiled. So if those
>>> dependendencies can be compiled in parallel they will use multiple threads
>>> from a pool, which should keep all cores busy. In my experience a good
>>> balance between core count and core speed matters. If you have big
>>> namespaces that a lot of other namespaces depend on (eg. like cljs.core)
>>> then its compilation will "block" all other threads so its important it
>>> finishes fast (ie. fast cores). If you have lots a small namespaces that
>>> are mostly independent then you can get maximum parallelization (ie. many
>>> cores).
>>>
>>> I have a i7-8700K 6c and there are builds that aren't able to use all
>>> cores due to the namespace setup (few very large ones). Others happily use
>>> everything. Single core difference is gigantic to my previous CPU from a
>>> macbook pro 2016.
>>>
>>> If you really really want to torture your CPU you can try
>>> https://github.com/mfikes/fifth-postulate or
>>> https://github.com/mfikes/coal-mine to compare.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 5:29:06 AM UTC+1, Khalid Jebbari wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> We're using the parallel build option, and I noticed the difference in
>>>> speed between my laptop and other laptops is basically proportional to the
>>>> difference in speed of the CPUs (based on notebookcheck's benchmarks). I
>>>> have 4C/8T 7700HQ CPU and my colleagues have a 8565U iirc (some have the
>>>> 6600U). Mine is almost twice as fast in benchmarks, which is reflected in
>>>> cljs compilation times.
>>>>
>>>> So my question is how does the cljs compiler scale with regards to CPU?
>>>> Core count? Single thread perf? All cores frequencies? Is it capped to some
>>>> number of cores?
>>>>
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