Re: Why is checksumming so much slower on a sparc64?

[Julio Merino <julio%meroh.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost> 
wrote:
>
>   I have two netbsd-6 machines, running nearly the same code.  One is an i386 
> with 2.8ghz-ish processor(s), and one is an UltraSPARC-IIIi with a pair of 
> 1.5 ghz processors.
>
>   When trying to build vim from pkgsrc, the checksum checks on all of the 
> 600+ files for the i386 takes a second or two.  Where as, each of the pair of 
> checksums seems to take more than a second.  I *think*, inferring from the 
> output rate, that the SHA1 is fast, and the RMD160 is what's taking more than 
> a second for each file.
>
>   Why is this?  This can't be an insurmountable issue, can it?

Is your pkgsrc tree up-to-date?  Otherwise the lack of this change may
explain it:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2012/10/13/msg079664.html

-- 
Julio Merino / @jmmv