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alimoeeny
on Jan 22, 2015
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What is the best hard drive?
Is "compiling code" an IO intensive (IO bound) task?
TillE
on Jan 22, 2015
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It certainly can be. Theoretically your OS should be pretty good about caching files in memory, but in practice I've measured significant differences when compiling large C++ projects on a fast SSD.
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