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		grishka on Dec 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel Isn't C++ compilation mostly single-core-bound still? Of course it does compile as many files in parallel as there are cores, but it's not possible to compile a single file in multiple threads.

khuey on Dec 24, 2021 [–]

Yeah but most projects that have compile times long enough to care about have many source files.

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