[SunRescue] Re: Recommend starter Sun?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I can run two compiles at twice the speed of one compile on my PeeCee, but
I prefer to use the -j2 flag and get twice the speed on one compile at a
time. 

Disapointingly, the dual proc. SS10 I have access to doesn't have a
make that supports the j2 flag.  I also haven't been able to convince the
admin to install pthreads.  Still, I can surf the net while compiling at
no speed loss.  This isn't saying much though considering the general
speed of the machine, especially the ZX board.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On March 21, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > SS/10s are not well-suited for 4-way SMP, IMHO. They can do it, and they can be useful, but you will spend an awful lot on CPUs that will always seem slow when you work on an Intel box of recent vintage.
> 
>   ...until you try to do more than one thing at a time on that Intel
> box.  I like the ability to, i.e., run more than one compile
> simultaneously without performance going into the toilet.  I've never
> seen an Intel/Unix box that could handle that.
> 
>         -Dave McGuire
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