[SunRescue] Re: [Re: [SunRescue] What should I look for?]

[Arnach]

SunSOFT Compilers are available free from www.sun.com 70mb download...use
something that supports resume :)

Thanks,

Aaron Finley


"Paolo Di Francesco" <paipai at tin.it> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > I cannot buy an "old" ATI card (Rage IIc). Noone sells it anymore. Now 
> > > everyone has the TNT2 based card, or VoodooIII card, but no old ATI 
> > > cards.
> > 
> > Check mail-order stores.  It's not that old of a card, and they still make
> > them.
> 
> Hum.. my problem was to find one of these, here in Italy. Noone wants to 
> import PCI video card. The PC market is really strong here....
> 
> > > Yes, but they cost and people does not want to pay for it... 8(
> 
> > This is true, and the high-end 3D market is not Sun's main graphics focus.
> > The CAD market probably is a better bet for them.
> 
> Yep... I would have and SGI here close to me... 8(
> 
> > > Good news for me! But are you using commercial compilers? Have you using

> > > gcc? I have an AXi but I don't know how much fast is compared to the 
> > > intel world. Any performance test?
> > 
> > Mostly raw SPARC V9 assembly with heavy use of VIS.  gcc is wonderfully
> > portable but on an Ultra it's quite poor at generating tight code (makes
> > sense as even the egcs SPARC optimizer isn't improved much over the
> > original gcc 2 optimizer).  Sun's SPARCompilers do a much better job
> 
> Yes they do. But they cost too much for me... Remember: I am a student 
> but I cannot buy at student prices. Why? Sun-Italy sells only to 
> Universities, not to students....
> 
> > (especially on fp-intensive code) but I can still squeeze out an extra 30%
> > by coding the critical parts in assembly.
> 
> What books have you used. I have bought the SparcV9 manual, and I have 
> started reading it. Onestly I don't know if I have time to start 
> "playing" with assembly.
> Currently my projects must run on Linux/Unix mixed enviroinments. So I 
> cannot use assembly code...
> What project are you working on?
> 
> What debugger do you use?
> 
> > It all depends on which CPU you're using.  The 270MHz/256k CPU is fairly
> > poor due to small cache size, but the 333MHz and up with 2mb cache really
> > scream.  If you're doing memory-intensive fp work it's hard to beat an
> > Ultra for the price.
> 
> 300Mhz version 8)
> 
> It has a good price/performance ratio. 
> 
> (And it was the only avaible at memoryx... ^___^)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ciao Ciao
>        Paolo Di Francesco
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