New Computer Speed

Posted by James on December 2, 2009 under General | Be the First to Comment

I’ve been playing around with my new computer. I wanted to see how much faster it is than my old computer so I’ve been doing some tests on common tasks that I do: compiling game, running scripts, booting game, reloading game scripts, etc. Everything is at least twice as fast, with some things much faster.

The most impressive result so far is compiling The Three Musketeers: The Game. On the old computer it took over 4 minutes. On the new computer it takes 2 minutes with normal settings. However, there is an option in Visual Studio to compile using multiple processes. Using the /MP8 directive causes the compiling to split up into 8 processes. This fully utilizes the 4 cores of my i7 processor (we use 8 processes instead of 4 to take advantage of hyperthreading). The build time using this mode is 30 seconds. Very impressive.