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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:16:52 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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Subject: Re: Bad performance on alpha? (make buildworld)
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:21:03PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I run several buildworld's on both, an Alpha EV56 and a Intel PII. I'm
> wondering that the Pentium beats the Alpha. Both systems have INVARIANTS*
> and WITNESS* disabled. Furthermore, no special tweakups - nearly "out of
> the box" configured.

...

> And I don't think CURRENT is that "faster" than 5.2.1. Why does (my) alpha
> performs so bad? Some ideas? Is that behaviour common for FreeBSD/alpha or
> did I missed something in my consideration?

Bit of a FAQ, but the last time I checked it was due to the code generation
for Alpha being lots slower. 

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org