Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> There is also the possibility that SPARC Firefox is built with GCC
> rather than Sun's compiler. The Sun compiler produces much better
> code for SPARC whereas GCC produces better code for x86.
While this has been true 15 years ago, it is now definitely an urban legend.
With my performance tests, I typically see ~ 30% better performance with code
compiled with Sun Studio compared to GCC.
J?rg
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