Hi,
I have recently bought a Lenovo Ideapad S340-15API (Ryzen 5 3500u model). Everything seems to be fine with the laptop except for one thing.
After installing Visual Studio 2019 I ran a few tests to see if the code executes as smoothly as expected on a new laptop. To my disappointment, the IDE takes about 3-5 seconds to build and run a program as simple as "Hello World", much slower than my 10 years old desktop does it.
So then I ran Passmark Benchmark on it and every component did fine except for RAM. Turns out my memory latency is 192ns, which falls in the 1st percentile :(.
I learned that high memory latency is a frequent issue on AMD systems, but I didn't expect it to be THAT bad. Currently my laptop has two DDR4 2666 MHz memory sticks installed, one 4gb soldered on-board and the other 8gb Kingston I added.
My question is - could slow compilation occur in Visual Studio due to high memory latency? If so, how can I mitigate the effect?
EDIT: Btw I tried disabling the anti-virus to fix the slow compilation but it didn't seem to change anything