“That said, ridiculously scalable or not, those Phoronix numbers do look good on Linux. It’s been a long time since I used an AMD system for my personal work (way back in the good old Opteron/K10 days – I despised all the nasty split-cpu AMD Bulldozer+ cores), but I’m seriously considering upgrading to an AMD system, and the new threadrippers would really fit my load.
During the merge window (like now), I spend a fair amount of time double-checking my merges by doing builds before pushing out, and my old i7-6700K is showing its age, with the kernel having grown, and meltdown slowing things down.
My main worry is noise. I’m not sure I want to deal with the blower required for a 180W+ CPU.”
Recently, Linus Torvalds switched to AMD processor for the first time in 15 years.
