Keeping The Ryzen Threadripper Busy With An Array Of Compiler Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Keeping The Ryzen Threadripper Busy With An Array Of Compiler Benchmarks

While there are an array of interesting AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Linux benchmarks in this morning's review, after hitting a 36 second Linux kernel compilation time with this 16 core / 32 thread processor, I spent this afternoon seeing what I was getting for some other compile times of popular programs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-TR-1950X-Compile-Times

[bridgman]

When I saw Michael compiling everything in sight it somehow reminded me of this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B02dsLGLw4E

[eva2000]

thanks Michael for the benchmarks - right in my area of interest

[carewolf]

You really ought to write a timed Chromium compilation script :P

[Michael]

You really ought to write a timed Chromium compilation script :P

Patches always welcome too.

[amossoma]

Could you test Eclipse/IntelliJ huge compiling?

[Michael]

Could you test Eclipse/IntelliJ huge compiling?

If someone provides a PTS test profile for it or at least a complete bash script doing so.

[amossoma]

Sorry, my fault. I joined two things together. First was just simple cusriosity about using Eclispse/IntelliJ in such powerfull PC (it's no testable by script ). And second was java huge compiling. It's testable . In example you can build hibernate(https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm) or any other big project.

[caligula]

"I did also try some runs when the tests were installed to tmpfs/zram, but that showed the Corsair MP500 NVMe SSD wasn't actually the bottleneck that the build times weren't getting reduced in any meaningful way."

Hmm that's stange. I've noticed significant speedups when compiling kernel in /tmp tmpfs versus NVMe SSD. Especially all disk operations which involve traversing directories and checking individual small files are faster. OTOH disk blocks are cached if you repeat the test so maybe that explains it.

[AdamOne]

When I saw Michael compiling everything in sight it somehow reminded me of this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B02dsLGLw4E

O_O

Prediction! AMD will repeat history and underperform like the FX-series in crucial tasks.