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Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds

Linux Hardware Reviews & Performance Benchmarks, Open-Source Ne… March 10, 2026
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The current crop of RISC-V SoCs are still much slower than alternative CPU architectures and lead to much longer build times for Fedora packages as a result. There's hope with next-gen RISC-V processors being faster but for now even compiling Binutils as an example is around five times slower than x86_64 -- and that's with disabling compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) for RISC-V to avoid an even longer build process...

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