Coding Horror: Upgrade Your Pentium 4 →
https://marco.org/2007/05/22/coding-horror-upgrade-your-pentium-4
Wow: “The fastest possible Pentium 4 is nearly 50 percent slower at compilation than a midrange Athlon 64 or Core 2 Duo CPU.” I had no idea the difference was that big. The P4EE and Pentium D series really sucked.