[rescue] Is anyone running netalk on solaris 9 sparc?

Devin L. Ganger devin at thecabal.org
Sun Mar 14 22:34:19 CST 2004


Dave McGuire wrote:

>   One should bear in mind that, however, GCC's code generation for SPARC 
> (and indeed most RISC) processors leaves a lot to be desired.  If you 
> have access to Sun's compilers, they will produce much faster, and in 
> some cases smaller, binaries.

I'd heard, and I don't have pointers to where now, that this was much 
less of a factor with relatively recent versions of GCC.  Is that in 
fact the case?

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
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its natural course.  You, of course, don't want to impede that natural
flow by being in its way." -- overheard on the PyraMOO



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