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12 years ago

Parallel compilation removed (again) from Quartus II v13.1 Web Edition

So it seems that parallel compilation, which was recently added back to Quartus II Web Edition, has been removed again from v13.1. My question to Altera is, is there any sensible reason to force y...
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12 years ago

I's make sure that the OS is actually running the CPU at their maximum speed.

Some of them aren't very good at doing that for a single threaded workload because the process keeps being scheduled on different cpu and so the clock speed is never increased to its maximum.

You might also gain from disabling hyper-threading.