On Solaris GCC is used to compile Opera. We do not know what options were used to build Opera since it's proprietary. Not that I'm against closed-source software, this is hardly the case, but I'd suspect Intel would have better tuning since it constitutes a large installation base, and through deduction more engineers on all fronts working toward Intel support. I'll compare AMD and Intel regardless with all the tests I can run on both platforms. This will be good for multiple reasons, comparing vendor to vendor, performance on bitness, release to current, etc.
I found that Opera 9.50 is faster than the currently bundled (B90) Firefox 2.0.0.14 I'll be done with benchmarking at 12:00 PM Central Daylight Time tomorrow. Firefox 3 is released at 10:00 AM Pacific, 11:00 AM my time. James On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, James Cornell wrote: > >> >>> Both systems are using 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 (667). 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 >> T7700, 2.6GHz AMD Opteron 1218. Both are using ECC capable memory as far as >> I know, though scrubbing on my workstation has been set to 8 hours. (Super >> mode) My notebook is a MacBook Pro so there's no place to configure ECC. I >> believe the system bus speed is what makes the difference. >> > > It used to be that the clock speeds posted for AMD chips were not the clock > speeds at all but only an AMD estimate as compared with an Intel chip. Has > that changed? > > Opteron requires different compilation than Intel in order to go fastest. > > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080616/9654bb52/attachment.html>
