Agreed, we’ve sorted of descended into “I use X…” I’m probably responsible too because of all the iPad chat. (Writing up that wiki that @AstonJ suggested - maybe could do some cleanup once it’s published)
That’s the sort of thing I was after! I had only searched for Elixir specific benchmarks so hadn’t come across that one. It definitely suggests that cores are the driving factor for kernel compilation.
Could compiling Elixir be much different?
What’s interesting though is that Intel iXs seem to outperform Ryzen processors, even when the AMD chip has both a core and clock-speed advantage. Perhaps things like L1/L2 cache, and maybe even cooling are coming into play? I’ve heard that Ryzens throttle themselves quite aggressively when the cooling isn’t adequate.
Very possibly. My test was only very superficial and didn’t really have enough data-points to form a comparison. Equally, it’s hard to know what sort of hardware you’re running on with DO droplets — kind of the point I guess… — which makes them hard to compare.
I didn’t want to keep that Xeon server around too long as it was quite pricey, so didn’t run too many tests on it. I wouldn’t have thought that there would be any meaningful bottlenecks on a server like that, particularly when compared to a 2015 MacBook Pro.
I realise that all this comparison of hardware on a task like compilation and test running is somewhat irrelevant unless you are on old hardware and the tasks are obnoxiously slow. I was mainly curious whether there was a case for fast hardware the same as there is for video rendering, and whether there was a point of diminishing returns.
