Wohoooo Dual Core

Halan · Post by **Halan** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:46 pm

When i bought my AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ i was only thinking about game performance, but when i compiled Irrlicht for the first time it was breathtaking.
At my old Pentium 4 i took aobut 45 mins, now it only takes about 5-10 mins.

Anyone else got such expericenes?

gfxstyler · Post by **gfxstyler** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:32 pm

compiling irrlicht took you 45 minutes? lol ... it never took me more than 5 minutes with a pentium 4 2.8 ghz .. maybe your compiler settings are kinda wrong?

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:43 am

AMD's are superior

but yah ive never taken more than 5 minutes to compile Irrlicht either, if even that

Nalin · Post by **Nalin** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:47 am

Took me 1 minute and 25 seconds to completely rebuild irrSpintz. There might have been something wrong with your old system. Irrlicht compiles quite fast.

(And yes, AMD's are <3)

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:05 am

Such long compiling times are often related to hdd problems. Also compiling from and to a network drive is damn slow.
But with dual core your compiler should be able to use at least two jobs at a time, which is not true by default for most tools. Under Linux just use 'make -j 3' which runs 3 jobs at a time (1 more to reduce I/O waiting time).

Halan · Post by **Halan** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:25 pm

yeah it was at my laptop before i think the hdd is very slow there