Which cpu better sooths IDE for forge, single thread performance or multithreaded performance

[Kiljaeden053]

High! Since Intellij is a workstation program, will it benefit on multiple cores or single core since we are doing Minecraft mods.

[sciwhiz12]

Minecraft is single-threaded, IntelliJ is not (as far as I know).

IntelliJ (and, generally, your computer) will benefit from multiple cores, but Minecraft will mostly benefit from high single-core speeds.

[DavidM]

There is no way to tell which is better without benchmarking your specific device.

More cores doesn’t necessarily means better handling of more threads. Check out how context switch works.

[MenschenToaster | David]

The UI and the Indexing Part of IntelliJ will definitely benefit from multiple Cores.

Minecraft is mostly single-threaded. In game, you will get a boost from single core performance.

 

In my experience IntelliJ is limiting the performance in the started application anyways... 

 

But I don't think you would buy a CPU only for Minecraft.