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Altera_Forum
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13 years agoParallel 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...
Altera_Forum
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12 years agoThis report is interesting... On my latest project I have an average use of 2.2 core in the fitter and 1.7 in Timequest, all the others are at 1.0. And indeed Quartus is on one core more than 50% of the time. In my case it doesn't seem to be very useful to go over 4 cores, and even with a dualcore I shouldn't see a big difference. Going for higher frequency, more memory, and a SSD is the way to get a lower compile time, more than multiple cores.