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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

New machine for compiling designs

I'm about to buy a new box to act as my new build machine for Quartus II. I have the option of choosing 1 of the following 2 options: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8500 with VT (3.16GHz, 6M, 133...
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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

My experience has been that multiple cores don't really help when compiling in Quartus. This may be design dependent, but I would probably go with the faster clock speed if Quartus was my only concern.

On the other hand, when compiling Nios code, the extra cores generally make a big difference. For example, running "make -j4" to use four cores can be almost four times as fast as using one core.