Is M1 better than Server Xeon for minimizing Rust compile times?

[scottmcm]

@ZiCog

CPU benchmarks do not reflect this process very well.

That's why, in the other thread, I used a benchmark that's clang. If you're looking at a release build that spends substantial time in LLVM, that should be a reasonably representative workload -- it's also reading a bunch of files, writing a bunch of temporary ones, running a linker, etc.

Is M1 Macbook pro a good choice if I want to use Rust to do embedded development?

That's great, but it tops out at 10 CPU cores, according to the website -- but that's 8 "performance cores" and 2 "efficiency cores". And I don't think it has hyperthreading? So being efficient is great, but if you're in a place where you can just plug it in and afford the extra power, 16C32T will give you faster parallelizable builds than the M1 chip. EDIT: Since someone said benchmarks below, MacPro 3950X has 21890 for the multicore clang and MacBookPro M1 Max has 12335 for multicore clang…