I was really surprised by the s390x performance, but I also don't really understand why there are build time listed by architecture, not the actual processors.

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kpil 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling.

The cores are in my experience moderately fast at most. Note that there are a lot of licencing options and I think some are speed-capped - but I don't think that applies to IFL - a standard CPU licence-restricted to only run linux.

	▲	burntoutgray 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought I read somewhere that Z CPUs run at 5GHz ??

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rbanffy 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably because that's just the infrastructure they have.

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pantalaimon 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i686 builds even faster