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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.
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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.


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