On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, James Cornell wrote: > enough for any of my activities. I find that ZFS is a clear advantage, and > that Sun Studio provides better optimization for compiled programs, and > that's just a few reasons. It all depends what your workflow is, if you'd
I have yet to see Sun Studio 12 provide better performance than modern GCC on modern Xeon/Opteron systems. Every once in a while I see it be as fast, but usually it is slower and sometimes considerably slower. Sun Studio produces much faster code on SPARC. On the flip site, Sun Studio is much better integrated with Solaris. The tools are nice and they actually work. It seems that the GNU folks have turned their nose up at Solaris. I can't use GDB to debug my programs and GCC 4.3 required using GNU ld and produced objects with slightly different symbol requirements so I ended up having to revert from it. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
