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Re: Benchmarking kicad compilation on CPUsreleased 6 years apart

 

Good to know.  I didn't realize the gen 3 threadrippers were not out
yet.  I may have to rethink my build.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 10/31/2019 9:57 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
> I don't own either, but am planning a Ryzen build.  The Threadrippers
> built on the third-gen Zen are not out yet, but presumably they will be
> even better as workstation/server CPUs than third-gen Ryzen.  On the
> other hand, if buying parts today, the 3900X / 3700X seem like way
> better bang for the buck than any of the older Threadrippers.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:52 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Adam,
> 
>     I would think so if we to fix the crash bug on macos.  We would need a
>     5.1.5-rc1 build with ngspice 31.3 so users could test.  I would hope one
>     or more of our macos devs would also test this using our spice demos to
>     at least confirm that things work as expected and that the crash bug has
>     been resolved.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     To get this thread back on track.  Anyone have any experience with the
>     new AMD threadripper processors and how they compare to the Ryzen and/or
>     Intel core I7 processors?  I actually have a new System76 desktop speced
>     out with one but I was wondering if the extra cost was worthwhile.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 10/30/2019 1:50 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>     > Do we want to switch to this for the next stable release?  If so, what
>     > is the procedure for making sure it's tested?
>     >
>     > Adam
>     >
>     > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:49 PM Holger Vogt
>     <holger.vogt@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:holger.vogt@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Simon,
>     >>
>     >> I had a quick look at
>     >> http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/ngspice-eeschema.html#external , where
>     >> you still are still using ngspice-28.
>     >>
>     >> Would you mind to switch to tag ngspice-31.3? There have been a
>     lot of
>     >> bug fixes an enhancements, many of them initiated by KiCad users.
>     So it
>     >> might be good to make the improvements available to everybody.
>     >>
>     >> KiCad for macOS distribution should use this most recent build
>     anyway to
>     >> get rid of the annoying crash bug.
>     >>
>     >> Holger
>     >>
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