Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower…

Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds

The current crop of RISC-V SoCs are still much slower than alternative CPU architectures and lead to much longer build times for Fedora packages as a result. There’s hope with next-gen RISC-V processors being faster but for now even compiling Binutils as an example is around five times slower than x86_64 – and that’s with disabling compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) for RISC-V to avoi… https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Slow-Fedora-Packages