Re: Bad performance on alpha? (make buildworld)

From: Wilko Bulte (wkb_at_freebie.xs4all.nl)
Date: 02/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:16:52 +0100
To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>

    On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:21:03PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I run several buildworld's on both, an Alpha EV56 and a Intel PII. I'm
    > wondering that the Pentium beats the Alpha. Both systems have INVARIANTS*
    > and WITNESS* disabled. Furthermore, no special tweakups - nearly "out of
    > the box" configured.

    ...

    > And I don't think CURRENT is that "faster" than 5.2.1. Why does (my) alpha
    > performs so bad? Some ideas? Is that behaviour common for FreeBSD/alpha or
    > did I missed something in my consideration?

    Bit of a FAQ, but the last time I checked it was due to the code generation
    for Alpha being lots slower. 

    -- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org
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