See my other answer in this threaad, the main reason for the strange result is doing an LTCG build, not really the CPU, which scales quite nicely in the Linux tests from Phoronix.
Ian Cutress replied on the article comments that LTCG is indeed used. With LTCG those strange results make sense - it's spending a lot of time on just 4 threads by default - actually majority of the time is on one…
The Chrome compilation looks really strange indeed, especially with having the results from Phoronix on Linux which show that it's the fastest compiling the Linux kernel. I wonder what kind of Chrome build it's doing -…
Not to take anything away from this, it's great that such a tool is available, but Microsoft had this kind of technology 20 years ago, known as BBT - still used in some places, but overall systems moved to profile…
See my other answer in this threaad, the main reason for the strange result is doing an LTCG build, not really the CPU, which scales quite nicely in the Linux tests from Phoronix.
Ian Cutress replied on the article comments that LTCG is indeed used. With LTCG those strange results make sense - it's spending a lot of time on just 4 threads by default - actually majority of the time is on one…
The Chrome compilation looks really strange indeed, especially with having the results from Phoronix on Linux which show that it's the fastest compiling the Linux kernel. I wonder what kind of Chrome build it's doing -…
Not to take anything away from this, it's great that such a tool is available, but Microsoft had this kind of technology 20 years ago, known as BBT - still used in some places, but overall systems moved to profile…