ksignorini
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OK, well, just for fun I compiled BitchX side by side on the following two machines:
In the blue corner, a PM G4 733 with 640 MB RAM running OS X 10.2 (Jag).
In the red corner, an AMD K6-2 500 with 128 MB RAM running FreeBSD 4.6.2.
Well, I ran the configure script and the AMD won by about 20 seconds. No biggy, I thought. I mean, the configure scripts will check different things depending on what they find. Then I ran the make (compile).
In the red corner, the lowly AMD K6-2 500, it took all of 2 minutes and 53 seconds to compile. Pretty slow, but it's a 3 year processor technology for the PC.
In the blue corner, my "supercomputer," it took 4 minutes and 45 seconds!!!!!!
What the heck is going on here? I thought this was a supercomputer?! I thought that the C compiler was optimized to use my Altivec super-duper-cruncher-thingy!?
Why did it compile so darn slow? Am I the only one with a similar compile time?
p.s. Oh, and by the way, the FreeBSD box was running KDE 3.0 in high res at the time--probably the heaviest GUI there is for UNIX. I didn't check other running processes but I can tell ya, there ain't much running in the background of either right now besides the GUI and a couple Internet dameons launched from inetd.
Kent!
In the blue corner, a PM G4 733 with 640 MB RAM running OS X 10.2 (Jag).
In the red corner, an AMD K6-2 500 with 128 MB RAM running FreeBSD 4.6.2.
Well, I ran the configure script and the AMD won by about 20 seconds. No biggy, I thought. I mean, the configure scripts will check different things depending on what they find. Then I ran the make (compile).
In the red corner, the lowly AMD K6-2 500, it took all of 2 minutes and 53 seconds to compile. Pretty slow, but it's a 3 year processor technology for the PC.
In the blue corner, my "supercomputer," it took 4 minutes and 45 seconds!!!!!!
What the heck is going on here? I thought this was a supercomputer?! I thought that the C compiler was optimized to use my Altivec super-duper-cruncher-thingy!?
Why did it compile so darn slow? Am I the only one with a similar compile time?
p.s. Oh, and by the way, the FreeBSD box was running KDE 3.0 in high res at the time--probably the heaviest GUI there is for UNIX. I didn't check other running processes but I can tell ya, there ain't much running in the background of either right now besides the GUI and a couple Internet dameons launched from inetd.
Kent!