Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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 > > Jorg, you mean on x86... obviously Bob agreed with SPARC, but it sounds like you also believe it's good for x86 as well...
James
