On 2/9/09, David Brown wrote:
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> Which CPU is the x86? The modern x86 CPUs (such as Core2) will be
> significantly faster than the PowerPC, even at comparable clock rates.
> Have you just compared even C code tests?
>
I think that goes a long way towards explaining it... a simple C loop
that
On 2/9/09, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Tim,
>
>
> Monday, February 9, 2009, 11:16:22 PM, you wrote:
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> > So is the PPC backend really this bad, or should I be looking for
> > something weird with the hardware or configuration on the Mac?
>
>
> check GC times too. one possibility is that GC
Hello Tim,
Monday, February 9, 2009, 11:16:22 PM, you wrote:
> So is the PPC backend really this bad, or should I be looking for
> something weird with the hardware or configuration on the Mac?
check GC times too. one possibility is that GC takes much more time
due to smaller L2 cache
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Hello,
For obscure reasons, I'm running some benchmarks both on an x86
machine (2.20 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM, Linux 2.6.22-15) and on a PowerPC Mac
(1 Ghz, 512 MB of RAM, Mac OS 10.5). I noticed that even some pretty
simple programs run much slower on the Mac than on the PC. For
example, the following pro
