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

[Rod Jackson]

Is this a free compiler, or a 30-day trial compiler?

Please give the location of the free sun compiler. www.sun.com is a big
site...

Rod Jackson



On 5 Jun 1999, Arnach wrote:

> 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
> >    _
> >  ->B<-   All Recycled Bytes Message ...
> >    ~
> > 
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