Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:48:07 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP, 4GB RAM, 4x CPU Message-ID: <95539.930005287@noop.colo.erols.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:37:47 EDT." <99062113061000.18239@par28.ma.ikos.com>
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Richard Cownie wrote in message ID <99062113061000.18239@par28.ma.ikos.com>: > Also there are rumours that Alpha performance is critically dependent > on the compiler used - i.e. the DEC compiler on Tru64 Unix (is that this > week's name ?) might give you 30% more performance than gcc. I believe GCC sucks for most RISC architectures. I could be wrong, but getting optimizing compilers for RISC is a complicated game, and I'd be real surprised if GCC managed it. I saw the same thing on the ARM platform years ago. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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