Hi, go for 4 cores if the price is not prohibitive. I'm using Q6600 here and all cores are quite busy except for the configuration and compilations which is done by cabal (if only this cabal would be parallel too!). On ARM/Linux -- 2 cores cortex-a9 (OMAP4430) I've noticed that sometimes build process strangely occupies just one core but I don't have enough resources to search for the culprit and yet majority of times 2 cores are 100% busy... Karel On 08/23/11 11:27 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:
Hi!
I'm looking to upgrade my laptop so that I can (among other things) compile GHC faster. I'll either get the 13" 2.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 model or the 15" 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 model. Anyone know if it's worth to get the 15" model? According to these benchmarks it should be quite a bit faster:
http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/
but I don't know if I can get enough parallelism out of GHC's build to use all 4 cores in the 15" model.
-- Johan
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