I was wondering if I needed to keep as many physical development machines or if I could just use virtual machines on my laptop and main desktop machine. I think I can certainly lose the P4 3GHz. It offers no real advantage over the Atom 330 1.6GHz.
I don't think I'll rely on the VirtualBox machine for Linux kernel work, but perhaps for mortal scale projects it will serve.
(pardon my confusing terminology: Compile time vs. Concurrent Jobs would have been a better graph title. i.e. make -j3 )
The blue line is different. That is a different version of gcc so you can't directly compare the hardware with the others, but for developer experience you can make the comparison.
I guess the bottom line is that I still lust for a Core i7 machine but will hold off for the lower power versions coming in the fall.
comment by jim, 8 months ago
I have provoked the computer spirits. The P4 I just benchmarked and decided I could live without has suffered a hard disk failure of its primary disk.
The good news is I don't have to fix it because I now know I can live without it.