Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:43:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Cc: tich@ma.ikos.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP, 4GB RAM, 4x CPU Message-ID: <199906220043.RAA18994@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <95539.930005287@noop.colo.erols.net> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 21, 99 06:48:07 pm
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> > 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. DEC (used to; haven't checked lately) have instruction scheduling code up for download on gatekeeper.dec.com. From memory, running it as an assembler preprocessor was pretty trivial. Of course, DEC may have advanced the technology without posting new code, so YMMV... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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