On April 18, 2009 16:46:44 Daniel Peebles wrote:
> That looks great! I wonder what about Mac OS leads to such good
> performance...
>
> Now if only we could get a nice x86_64-producing GHC for Mac OS too, I
> could use all my RAM and the extra registers my Mac Pro gives me :)
I was a bit surprised
Dave Bayer:
In that paper, they routinely benchmark N-1 cores on an N core Linux
box, because of a noticeable falloff using the last core, which can
do more harm than good. I had confirmed this on my four core Linux
box, but was puzzled that my two core MacBook showed no such
falloff. Hey,
