New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Buy a used 1U as a compiler server
Ask HN: Buy a used 1U as a compiler server
5 by tubby12345 | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Lately (last ~6 months) I've transitioned to working on large C++ projects (e.g., LLVM). Naturally compile times are long and a serious barrier to learning/iteration. At work I have a beefy workstation (32 core threadripper, 128GB RAM, 2TB ssd) so I don't feel the pain as much . I'd like to get something comparable at home but I don't want to spend 5k or whatever. Looking around on ebay you find lots of decommissioned 1U units that are pretty cheap, pretty old, but multicore. Would it be a bad idea to get one of these if I'm going to use it just to offload compiling (either through vscode remote or by some other means)?
5 by tubby12345 | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Lately (last ~6 months) I've transitioned to working on large C++ projects (e.g., LLVM). Naturally compile times are long and a serious barrier to learning/iteration. At work I have a beefy workstation (32 core threadripper, 128GB RAM, 2TB ssd) so I don't feel the pain as much . I'd like to get something comparable at home but I don't want to spend 5k or whatever. Looking around on ebay you find lots of decommissioned 1U units that are pretty cheap, pretty old, but multicore. Would it be a bad idea to get one of these if I'm going to use it just to offload compiling (either through vscode remote or by some other means)?
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