In my experience, hyperthreading isn't adding much to build speed. I
would ignore that feature when deciding on cpu. Also, windows builds do
not scale out well on multiple cores due to cygwin. But going to 4 over
2 will certainly make a difference. The machine I use in the lab has 64
logical co
Thanks. I am thinking of buying a new 4 core laptop later this year so
was curious to know if the 8 thread hyperthreading would help that much
over the 4 cores without hyperthreading. Actually I don't think there
will be a non-hyperthreading option. I put in an SSD last week and now
I'm compute
On 19/09/2013 7:43 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
If a machine has 4 cores and 8 threads will the jdk8 build run faster
than one with 4 cores and 4 threads?
All depends on where the bottlenecks are. Given a build is pretty much
I/O bound I wouldn't expect much difference.
If so would it be a 2x dec
> If a machine has 4 cores and 8 threads will the jdk8 build run faster
> than one with 4 cores and 4 threads? If so would it be a 2x decrease in
> build time? Would the build explicitly take advantage of the
> hyper-threading or would any increase in performance be a side effect?
My understand
