Sounds promising. Now I just have to decide whether to get the 2.2 or 2.3 GHz version. I suspect the latter is a bit overpriced.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:36 PM, austin seipp <a...@hacks.yi.org> wrote: > I'm using a MBP with a quad core 2gHz Core i7; it has 8 overall > hardware threads. GHC's build process using 'make -j9' or 'make -j12' > totally saturates all my cores. I believe I can clock in a full build > at well under 10 minutes (with BuildFlavor = quick in mk/build.mk.) > For comparison, I also have a dual core 2gHz Core i7 (4 hardware > threads) in a lenovo sitting next to it running Linux, and a full GHC > build takes a bit longer. I can get real numbers later if it's > actually that interesting. > > I'd recommend you getting the quad-core machine, if at all possible. > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Austin > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
