Hello John,
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 2:51:41 AM, you wrote:
JL> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:52:37PM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote:
>> run anywhere. For OpenSolaris, choosing 64 bit binaries
>> by default is equivalent to choosing to use machine-specific
>> code generation options by default that would confine the
>> use of the generated binaries to the same machine type as
>> the build machine - nice for benchmarking, a little surprising
>> if you're building applications for others to use.
JL> It's easy to say that it's poor benchmarking, but it obviously indicates
JL> a real problem.
JL> If these performance differences are indeed down to the bitsize of the
JL> provided binaries (as far as I know, this is just conjecture), what are
JL> users supposed to do if they really want to use these applications? Just
JL> live with the poor performance, or compile their own binaries? Neither
JL> seem like an attractive choice.
JL> Or are we going to start build 64-bit variants of more of the
JL> performance-critical applications shipped?
Did they compile all applications they tested or did they used binaries
which were already in OS?
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Best regards,
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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