[rescue] point of pride in SGI R10k vs. 1Ghz x86...

[Dave McGuire]

On November 13, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   In that case, it's likely to have been compiled to run on any
> > processor from the R4K up.  Compiling gimp is a bit of a pain, but you
> > might see significant performance gains when compiling specifically
> > for the R10K...so it might be worth the trouble!
> 
> Really, I thought compiling the gimp was so much easier on irix (6.2) than 
> it was on any version of linux I've used it on.  I literally just did 
> ./configure --path=~ && make && make install, and it went without any 
> hicups.  Err, the --path bit was because I didn't have root access to the 
> machine.  You would think that SGI was the native development environment 
> from how easy it was.

  Nono, I don't mean that sort of compilation pain...I just remember
having to install lots of other libraries and very large compiles.
Not enough to really whine about, though.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL