On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 04:14:22PM -0600, Daniel Smith wrote:
> A coworker had the follwoing question.  I was wondering if anyone out
> there knew what need to be done.
> 
> "We have a simulator that is being targetted for a Sun Fire V440
> server with two 1.065 MHz processors and 4 GB memory.
> When we build the application then compare its execution times on the
> server with the exec time on a 550MHz 1GB workstation, the app runs
> faster on the workstation (by about 40%!).
> 
> My questions:
> 
> Are there specific compiler options that we need to identify to
> optimize for the multiprocessor environment?
> 
> We are currently running Solaris 9.0 and using the gcc compiler v
> 3.2.2.  Are there more suitable tools available (e.g. the Sun Compiler
> suite)?"

Did you use the -march=ARCH option?  What about optmizations, -O3, etc.


Justin

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