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Ask HN: Ryzen or i7 for Visual Studio C# and JS development?

1 points by polskibus ↗ HN
I'm building my next dev rig and wondering what processor is better for C# & JS development in Visual Studio. I can't find any trustworthy benchmarks, only some that relate to C++ compilation. I'm trying to decide whether to get i7 7700k or Ryzen 7, but don't know if Ryzen's higher core count will provide faster build speeds in C# compiler and gulp than faster single-core speeds and lower core count in i7. Can anyone share their experience?

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zoltrain
Gulp runs in node, which runs single core so compilation speed will be effected by single core speed. I'm not really that familiar with how "Parallel" msbuild/roselyn is these days in regards to core usage. I'm pretty sure Roselyn/Visual Studio does some very clever stuff when compiling your code. I think it keeps a shadow copy of your on disk files and only recompiles the AST sections it needs too. I remember watching a talk on how Anders reimagined the .net compiler to approach compilation this way. You should probably look at other multi-core workloads you might be doing on the dev machine that would benefit from the increased core count.
polskibus
Afaik, we're using gulp with some paralellization plugins.