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What about multiple cores? Does a dual core CPU have benefit over single cores in web editions? 7.2? 8.0?
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We use the term "parallel compilation" to cover both multiple cores on a chip and multiple chips on a board, so dual-core CPUs will not show any benefit due to parallelism as of 8.0 (parallel compilation was still enabled in 7.2 web edition).
However, Intel's dual-core processors generally have a large shared L2 cache - 6MB on the latest models - which Quartus will happily use. In addition, if you're sweeping multiple options to try to close timing (eg by using DSE), you'll still be able to use those extra cores to increase your throughput.
Cheers,
Adrian Ludwin
Altera Corp.
Honored Contributor
