I3 or i5

[bng13]

what proccessor is best for all kind of programming work? i5 or i3?

 

[rgd1101]

i5 will be faster for compiling code.

 

[Deemo13]

The i5 is better for compiling code, I would have to agree. My 2500K works well with Visual Studio running C++ and is faster than any of the computers in our computer lab at school...save for maybe the ones with Nvidia cards in them.

 

[The Stealthinator]

Go for i7 if you have the cash

 

[$hawn]

Between the two, the i5....I've checked and seen all 4 cores under full load when compiling using Xcode 4.5 on Lion, which means that today's compiler's (or atleast LLVM for that matter) are multi-core optimized

 

[InvalidError]

Between the two, the i5....I've checked and seen all 4 cores under full load when compiling using Xcode 4.5 on Lion, which means that today's compiler's (or atleast LLVM for that matter) are multi-core optimized

Code compilers are not multi-threaded. What happens is that the build management software evaluates which object files need re-compile and then issues as many parallel build jobs as there are CPUs but each of these object file jobs are fundamentally single-threaded. Once all object files are built, you are back to waiting on the linker which is usually a single-threaded affair.

That sort of build job parallelizing has been around for decades. Even non-multiprocessor systems still benefited from it since running multiple object builds in parallel lets processes use the CPU while others are stuck waiting on disk IO.

 

[Deemo13]

Code compilers are not multi-threaded. What happens is that the build management software evaluates which object files need re-compile and then issues as many parallel build jobs as there are CPUs but each of these object file jobs are fundamentally single-threaded. Once all object files are built, you are back to waiting on the linker which is usually a single-threaded affair.

That sort of build job parallelizing has been around for decades. Even non-multiprocessor systems still benefited from it since running multiple object builds in parallel lets processes use the CPU while others are stuck waiting on disk IO.

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