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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
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info


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