Re: Impossible

[Armin Ollig <armin data tops net>]

Mark,

the problem is the compiler.
Gcc makes rather slow alpha code ;^(

We all have to suffer from this fact. 

Please mail Digital and ask them to make the Digital Unix compiler
available, this will beat the speed of the Microsoft compiler (thou iam
not shure if MS really made a compler or if they just bought something
from Digital) 

best regards,
--armin

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| Armin Ollig       UNIX Systems Administration       armin@tops.net  |
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|            If god is dead who will save the queen ?                 |
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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Mark Dohojda wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> I have an Impassable situation here (or so I believe).  I have a
> customer here who just installed Linux on alpha LX600mhz, 512mb of RAM.
> He run C program in NT and in Linux (on the same box), and NT proved to
> be 30% faster.  Now I don't know much about the code, however I know
> that he used the same sources on both of the operating systems.  Also
> the source (to the best of my knowledge) was in no way optimized for NT.
> 
> 
> My question is, how can NT beat Linux????? Is that possible? And what to
> do, to make sure that Linux is not going to look bad.
> 
> He has RedHat 5.1 no special editions or patches other then the man
> pages patch.
> 
> Also one other question.  Part of the problem might be his swap
> partitions.  He has total of 8 swap partitions 128mb each, how can I
> make sure that Linux is using all of them? or does RedHat installation
> automatically makes sure that all the swap partitions are working
> correctly?
> 
> Thank you
> Marek Dohojda
> 
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