GHC build times on newer MacBook Pros?

[Karel Gardas]

Hi,

go for 4 cores if the price is not prohibitive. I'm using Q6600 here and 
all cores are quite busy except for the configuration and compilations 
which is done by cabal (if only this cabal would be parallel too!). On 
ARM/Linux -- 2 cores cortex-a9 (OMAP4430) I've noticed that sometimes 
build process strangely occupies just one core but I don't have enough 
resources to search for the culprit and yet majority of times 2 cores 
are 100% busy...

Karel

On 08/23/11 11:27 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking to upgrade my laptop so that I can (among other things)
> compile GHC faster. I'll either get the 13" 2.7GHz dual-core Intel
> Core i7 model or the 15" 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 model. Anyone
> know if it's worth to get the 15" model? According to these benchmarks
> it should be quite a bit faster:
>
> http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/
>
> but I don't know if I can get enough parallelism out of GHC's build to
> use all 4 cores in the 15" model.
>
> -- Johan
>
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