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0 pointsAurornis3mo ago0 comments

> Bad example. That's highly parallel, so a higher core-count die is going to destroy the base M5 here.

The base M5 starts at 10 cores and scales to 18 cores. The performance is similar to high end dekstop consumer CPUs.

> I don't typically compile Linux on my M5, so I don't really care,

If you don't compile large codebases, why do you care then?

I do compile large codebases and I'm speaking from experience with the same codebase on both platforms. Not "LOC/s" benchmarks

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chmod7753mo ago

I don't compile Linux or other large C projects on my M5 (why would I). The only thing I have numbers for on both desktop and mobile is your typical JS/TypeScript/webpack shitshow that struggles to keep a high core count CPU remotely busy. Might as well do that on the M5.

There's a large C++ codebase I need to compile, but it can't compile/run on OSX in the first place, hence the desktop that I use remotely for that. Since it's also kind of a shitshow, that one has really terrible compile times: up to 15 minutes on a high powered Intel ThinkPad I no longer use, ~2 minutes on desktop.

I could do it in a VM as well, but let's be real: running it on the M5 in front of me is going to be nowhere near as nice as running it on the water cooled desktop under my desk.

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