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I’m really curious what Xcode and IntelliJ compile times look like for real world repos.

It’s a single use case, but by far the most common one for me where I genuinely feel productivity slowed by my computer. Hopefully good news there as well.




Dave2D had xcode benchmarks and it seems like... It's faster than the iMac Pro, and even faster than his friends hackintosh. Might be the fastest, or almost the fastest, out of Apples entire lineup.

https://youtu.be/XQ6vX6nmboU at minute 3


I'm looking this repo[1] for reference, something must be off, because a mid 2015 has half the time in incremental build, of course the project matters, but Dave doesn't reveal the name of the app they are compiling or I missed it.

[1] https://github.com/ashfurrow/xcode-hardware-performance


As someone using Jetbrains products, I would get no less than 32GB for my machine :)




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