Quoting BlueHandTalking <j...@whidbey.com>: > I am looking at getting a new Thinkpad with an i5 processor. > > I was curious to what extent this would speed up developing a Ruby on > Rails > app. I am guessing that this depends to what extent multi-threading is > utilized, > but I am not sure---hence the question :^) >
Ruby (at least for 1.8) does not use multiple cores. However, the database server may. And test suites usually hit both. A talk was given at Lone Star Ruby on how the speaker reduced the run time for the test suite from 13 minutes to 18 seconds. Part of the changes involved running pieces of the test suite in parallel on multiple CPUs. I am pretty sure the talk is on the Web somewhere. Google for "Grease your Suite: Tips and Tricks for Faster Testing". HTH, Jeffrey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
