[ On Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 00:04:15 (+0200), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: PII vs 21164
>
> Yes, the compiler has to do more work for alpha than i386.
> A good test could be to run e.g.
> ./build.sh -m sparc64 -D ../DistribDir -R ../ReleaseDir release
> on both systems.

Even better would be to run it via "time" and only pay attention to the
user CPU time in the comparison....

Or, heaven forbid, how about using a real benchmark, such as mabye
pkgsrc/benchmarks/lmbench?

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