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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!demos!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Sparc vs. x86 speed (was Re: Linux vs BSD) Date: 26 Jan 1997 16:06:59 -0800 Organization: codewright Lines: 16 Message-ID: <x73evo0yn0.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c58n9$hcb@innocence.interface-business.de> <32E66DE1.7E36AB48@samart.co.th> <5c8b0o$313$1@capsicum.wsrcc.com> <JASON.97Jan23151639@daffodil.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dumbcat.codewright.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:66154 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5733 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2028 comp.sys.sun.misc:28092 jason@daffodil.cs.odu.edu (Jason C Austin) writes: > Compile time is not a good comparision; there's just too many > variables involved. A more optimized compiler will need much more CPU > but will produce smaller and faster assembly code. *May* not be a good comparison. How about when both systems are running the same version of a cross compiler (GNU), compiling the same source code? If system A does it twice as fast as system B, and that is the thing that you do day in, day out, you stop using system B very much. It doesn't make any difference if the reason is processor, I/O bandwidth, memory bandwidth, whatever. // marc