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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) 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: 2 Feb 1997 20:03:29 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 19 Sender: mathnews@graves.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5d2ruh$kuv@graves.maths.tcd.ie> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <x73evo0yn0.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5cnk2s$krd$2@bigboote.WPI.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: graves.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:67071 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5844 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2208 comp.sys.sun.misc:28182 tallpaul@palantir.res.wpi.edu (Paul English) writes: >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. In all honesty, I would have to say that in my experience of pgcc (with -O6) both under Linux and FreeBSD is that it hardly makes any difference. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland