Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
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Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#2discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628149
Linux # Threadripper : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628482
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#3discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628149 Linux # Threadripper : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628482
I clicked to see discussion on the topic of the thread but you’re linking to threadripper discussion. Disappointed in lack of linux kernel compile time discussion.
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#4discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628149 Linux # Threadripper : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628482
I clicked to see discussion on the topic of the thread but you’re linking to threadripper discussion. Disappointed in lack of linux kernel compile time discussion.
Not trying to be rude, but genuinely curious: what else is there to discuss?
Is this a new record, or just a record for the price point? What was the previous record? Will this have a large effect on how the kernel is developed?
For what it's worth, I understand how hard it is to focus on a project when compile times get more than about thirty seconds.
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I clicked to see discussion on the topic of the thread but you’re linking to threadripper discussion. Disappointed in lack of linux kernel compile time discussion.
Not trying to be rude, but genuinely curious: what else is there to discuss? Is this a new record, or just a record for the price point? What was the previous record? Will this have a large effect on how the kernel is developed? For what it's worth, I understand how hard it is to focus on a project when compile times get more than about thirty seconds.
Was thinking people would talk about compile times with their hardware or experiences with intel vs amd etc.
It’s just this title is very specific to compile time compared to the other being very general discussion.
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#6It is cool to see this level of parallelism coming to commodity hardware. 5-ish years ago a friend of mine had access to an experimental box one of the server vendors had made. Never went to production AFAIK. My memory is that it had 128 cores, 256 threads. One of the things we did on it, of course, was compile the kernel. I don't remember the exact numbers, but recall it being in the single digits number of seconds. This was done with just a ton of Xeon sockets.
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#7i think this the script they use: https://openbenchmarking.org/innhold/9a7355bdb73d85c9e044d02...
on vanilla head branch myn "time make -s -j32" took "0m56.226s" with 1950x
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#8We need to move on from the Linux Kernel and start using “compile Unreal Engine” as a CPU benchmark.
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#9I don't really understand why this is newsworthy, so maybe someone could help me understand. It's a big, power hungry desktop CPU with incremental performance gains over the last generation.
Why is this important? Is there some kind of architectural breakthrough these CPUs are using? Are these CPUs recovering performance lost to Spectre/Meltdown mitigation?
Re: Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds
#10Reminds me when they built a (much older, smaller) kernel on a pSeries (POWER architecture) in under 5 seconds: http://es.tldp.org/Presentaciones/200211hispalinux/blanchard...
Gosh, 18 years ago, now I feel really old :D