LogicalDesign

Thanks for all the quick replies, all of them are super helpful! It seems the general consensus is that more cores does not really help in this situation. So, I guess I'll have to look into getting just an i7, and overclock that. Kind of sucks though, as if running dual Xeons would have helped a lot, that would be a very fun rig to build. Oh well. Would this be a good place for Skylake? As I've heard it's per core performance is better than last gen's.

Hello! I've been looking into upgrading my computer, and the CPU is the main thing I'm stuck thinking about. Currently, I do a lot of compiling on my computer(Java, Android), and I really want to increase the speed of that as much as possible. However, a lot of the benchmarks that are out there for CPUs are either targeted towards video editing, or games, or are just artificial benchmarks. I'm wondering if anyone would have any knowledge on how well compilers scale with multiple cores/threads. I have my doubts than more than 4 cores would really make any significant difference, but it would be interesting to know for certain. So, what do you think? Would it be better to go with something like a i7-6700K, a i7-5930K, or would it be worthwhile to rock dual Xeon E3-1276 v3? Thanks!