If you really want a better way to test a system, especially for single threaded performance, try testing it with an upwards of 90 MB text file which contains approximately 1.45 million lines of text in it by running a compare operation against two copies of the text file, and the difference between the two files is about +/- 7200 lines, but +/- 20 MB. (Yeah, don't know how THAT happened, but that's the result.) (It is an index of a directory that I have that contains about 1.45 million files and folders)
The current compare operation that has been running in Notepad++ 8.1.2 with the compare plugin has been running for over an hour now on an Intel Core i7-6700K (4-core, 4.0 GHz base clock speed, 4.2 GHz max boost speed, HyperThreading enabled) and I have no idea how much longer said compare operation is going to take.
You want to test single threaded performance?
Test it with something like this.
This will give you a REAL sense as to what different processors can do.
*edit*
The comparison ended up taking 51 hours 45 minutes and 28 seconds on said computer.
The comparison ended up taking 51 hours 45 minutes and 28 seconds on said computer.
