> > but good old SunOS 4.x is
> > more efficient than Linux on such a relic.
>
> Do you have benchmarks to support this claim?
Andrew Trigell did banchmark compilations when
a kernel compile took 28 hours on a sun4c. He did
some good work and made our performance only
somewhat worse than that of NetBSD.
Common opinion on sun4c is that the platform requires
complicated heuristics to steal right PMEGs. We never
did that too well. sun4m is another matter of course.
I always said that we should not strive to best
SunOS and NetBSD on sun4c as these systems are
completely worthless and obsolete. As a matter of
fact all 32 bits SPARC are obsolete these days.
Let our BSD brethen to play with junk hardware,
they are good at that.
--Pete
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