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Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

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Re: Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

#3
>C++Builder with TwineCompile is a powerful productivity solution for multi-core machines compiling 1 million lines of code very quickly and can work better than the MAKE/GCC parallel compilation Jobs feature due to it’s deep IDE integration

You're claiming this plugin has deeper IDE integration than `make`? I find that really, really difficult to believe. And if it's true, it seems like the solution is to either use a better IDE, or improve IDE support for the de facto standard tools that already exist, as opposed to writing a plugin for the -j flag.

Re: Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

#6

[Not "real" C++ code, benchmark is for compiling 14492754 copies of a fairly simple C function]

Seems like he tried more complex examples too, but ran into roadblocks like a 2GB limit on executables and running into a commandline length limit restriction that dates back to early DOS days which made it impossible to link.

Both of those problems seemed solvable if he was willing to chunk up his application into libraries, maybe 1024 files per library then linked to the main application.

Re: Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

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Re: Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

#9
Lucky sons of gun. We are stuck with Xeons. Have to wait 3 hours for our 20M C/C++ on the 2x14cores Xeon machine after a pull/rebase. Ryzen/TR would probably be faster 2-3x times for the same money, yet it is a BigCo, so no such luck (and our product is certified only for Xeons, so our customers can't run AMD too - thus we're de-facto part of the Great Enterprise Wall blocking AMD from on-premise datacenter).

Re: Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

#10

It is a good thing that Embarcadero is keeping alive this technology to create desktop apps from the early 2000s that was abandoned by MS and other large companies in favor of complex Web-based apps.

If only they had made Delphi Community Edition available a decade earlier...
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