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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.207.105.50!prodigy.com!darkstar.prodigy.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) 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: 5 Feb 1997 20:45:07 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5dargj$1f7g@usenet1y.prodigy.net> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <x73evo0yn0.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5cnk2s$krd$2@bigboote.WPI.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: darkstar.prodigy.com Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:67776 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5955 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2409 comp.sys.sun.misc:28242 In article <5cnk2s$krd$2@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, Paul English <tallpaul@palantir.res.wpi.edu> wrote: | Nope. The GNU compiler is much more developed on some systems. For instance, | on intel x86 it is fairly developed... _but_ if you were to look into | the Pentium GNU compiler (currently being developed), you would find that | on Pentium & Pentium Pro machines it would compile up to 30% _faster_. | I would strongly suspect the the GNU compiler is at different stages of | development on intel vs sparc systems, and know it is quite a bit behind | on Alpha systems. Actually, I have never seen more than 8% faster on a real program, and a lot less than that on the PPro, because the internal silicon compiler does a better job than the Pentium. I would expect the SPARC compiler to be very advanced, because it's easier to generate good code for SPARC. Take this to comp.arch for a better discussion. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well." -Dave Welch