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Honored ContributorImprove Build Time on dual processor machine
I have a dual CPU (Xeon E5-2403 @ 1.80GHz, 10M Cache) machine with 16GB of DDR3 Memory (1067 MHz) dedicated to each CPU. Each CPU has 4 cores. Using Quartus 11.1 sp2. When I run Quartus with th...
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Honored ContributorNot sure if it will work but: via the task manager, try to set the process's thread affinity.
Quartus ability to take advantage of multiple cores is limited -- synthesis and specially place & route are not easy to parallelize and Amdahl's law applies. So it makes sense that a faster core will outperform multiple slower cores.
