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AlexVPerl
AlexVPerl

Reputation: 8026

Android Studio on Dual Xeon Workstation

Curious if anyone out there is doing Android Studio development on a dual Xeon machine.

I would like to know if the additional CPU gave a dramatic or visible (50% or more) boost in build performance.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1949

Answers (2)

yozhik
yozhik

Reputation: 5074

I have tried to measure speed of Android Studio 3.1.4 on the same hardware: Macbook Pro 2011, RAM 4Gb, SSD 240GB Samsung, Core i5 2.4Ghz. I have installed on this machine 3 different OS: Windows 10, MacOS Hight Sierra 10.13, Ubuntu 18.04. Avarage build time (running command: gradlew clean build, gradlew clean assembleRelease) on MacOS/Ubuntu was around 30% faster than on Windows.

On my another working machine: Core i5 3.0 Ghz 7400, RAM 16Gb, SSD 250Gb. Build time takes 4.34min on Windows 10 machine. The same project on a little bit slower processor, but with the same RAM and SSD and it is running Ubuntu 16.04 build time takes two times faster!! Well I was shocked with results, but still I choose Windows as development machine, because it's much more comfortable for me to use comfortable and usable keyboard and sotfware than on Unix like systems. And even if I had to choose between MacOS and Ubuntu - mac is really much easier to setup everything, and Ubuntu is too complex to use for usual people. Choise is up to you.

Upvotes: 0

Alexandre G
Alexandre G

Reputation: 1693

You probably found out, but for others wondering: Chances are - it won't.

Did some testing with two relatively quick E2650 v4 Xeons on a largish Java + Kotlin project and Xeons were considerably slower than low core count / higher clock CPU's.

Check out the benchmarks here: https://superuser.com/questions/1115206/will-dual-xeons-improve-android-studio-build-times/

Upvotes: 3

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