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Development speed is not a bottleneck

(pawelbrodzinski.substack.com)
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Developers would gain a lot more speed than what LLMs offer if Microsoft would just fucking stop using >50% of the CPU watching your compiler for... something?

Nobody wants to believe it, but just try compiling C++ on Windows and again in a Linux VM. Linux in a VM on the same host compiles at least twice as fast. It's insanity. I tried a script that rsync's the project files to my server from 2013, runs the build and rsync's the artifacts back. Running the build on a Xeon 2500 is still far faster with Linux than windows on my two year old i9. Even with the overhead of sending binaries over the internet. Absolutely disgusting.