Well, I would believe that it is the gcc more then anything. It is
very well optimized for i386, but not that well for Sparc or PPC.
Heck, most of the speed improvments that Apple has seen in OS X have
just been from all the optimizing they have put into gcc.

On 5/18/05, matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:
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>    BTW, build release takes 24 hrs on a 200mhz 604e, but, damn
>    those intel boxes, only 12 hrs on a 266mhz p6.  Both with local
>    disks...
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> note that the i386 compiler runs faster than the sparc or powerpc
> compilers, given the same host...
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> .mrg.
>