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Why is building a solution slower on a Core i7 than on a Core i3 processor?

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Mar 15, 20261906 views
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Background: We have a C# solution with 49 projects and it uses VS2005 SP1 (didn't upgrade to higher version due to old version of Syncfusion 4.x lib). The project uses Ant with ISharpCode zip library for packing components and much of the build time is used here. I usually built it in my office PC …

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Fix for: Why is building a solution slower on a Core i7 than on a Core i3 processor?

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Laptop hard drives tend to be slower than desktop hard drives. Compiling is disk intensive. Because VS2005 has no support for parallel compiles within a project, you're only compiling on one core. Per core, the 2630QM is only about 11% faster than t…

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