alt Hacker NewsI was really surprised by the s390x performance, but I also don't really understand why there are build time listed by architecture, not the actual processors.
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rbanffy • yesterday at 8:51 PM
Probably because that's just the infrastructure they have.
pantalaimon • yesterday at 9:42 PM
i686 builds even faster
What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling.
The cores are in my experience moderately fast at most. Note that there are a lot of licencing options and I think some are speed-capped - but I don't think that applies to IFL - a standard CPU licence-restricted to only run linux.