Comment by LeFantome

I am going to make a wild guess here.

The reason that he does not tell us what hardware he is using is because none of these times are for a single system building binutils. I think he is using a mix of systems and then doing some kind of averaging to tell us what a individual system would look like.

For some kind of hardware, all the systems they have would be the fastest that architecture offers, like with i686 I expect. While others are going to be a mix of old and new, like x86-64.

For RISC-V, the latest gen hardware is about as fast as the numbers he quotes for Aarch64. To be clear, the fastest ARM is still faster than the fastest RISC-V. But the numbers he quotes make no sense for something like a SpacemiT K3.

But if you are using RISC-V systems from two years ago in your build cluster, they will as he says be "Sloooow". But that shows how fast RISC-V is improving. It makes no sense to publish this article now.

At least, he should reveal what hardware he is talking about. His chart makes no sense (for most of the platforms).