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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

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Going for higher frequency, more memory, and a SSD is the way to get a lower compile time, more than multiple cores.

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I just went through this last year, upgrading year 2007 machine to year 2012 machine. The conclusion I reached was that by far the biggest gain is realized through raw CPU and memory speed and that the disk was not a large factor. Short of overclocking and liquid cooling, I think the next noticeable time improvement will only come with investing the labor in incremental compilation and design partitions. "Rapid Recompile" has similarly been disappointing gains.