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I've noticed that the fans in my MacBook Pro kick in when I'm using Homebrew to compile a large software project, such as gcc, from source code. Can someone exp
by chmaynard 8y ago
I've noticed that the fans in my MacBook Pro kick in when I'm using Homebrew to compile a large software project, such as gcc, from source code. Can someone explain why this type of workload causes the CPU to overheat? Two theories of mine: (1) multiple threads are working all four cores very hard, and (2) the CPU isn't waiting around as much for main memory to respond.