Yes, just went from i3770 (12 years old!) to a 9900x as I tend to wait for a doubling of single core performance before upgrading (got through a lot of PCs in the 386/486 era!). It's actually only 50% faster according to cpubenchmark [0] but is twice as fast in local usage (multithread is reported about 3 times faster).

Also got a Mac Mini M4 recently and that thing feels slow in comparison to both these systems - likely more of a UI/software thing (only use M4 for xcode) than being down to raw CPU performance.

[0] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-9900K-vs-Intel...

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fmajid 6 hours ago | parent [-]

M4 is amazing hardware held up by a sub-par OS. One of the biggest bottlenecks when compiling software on a Mac is notarization, where every executable you compile causes a HTTP call to Apple. In addition to being a privacy nightmare, this causes the configure step in autoconf based packages to be excruciatingly slow.

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gentooflux 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They added always-connected DRM to software development, neat

	▲	fmajid 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. They had promised to make notarization opt-out but reneged.

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glitchc 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does this mean that compilation fails without an internet connection? If so, that's horrifying.