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Article #2827Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:20
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:20
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In article <DL7383.5Bv@wombat.hanse.de>, root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd
"Bernie" Meyer) wrote:
> *Grin* the reason for this is that the Mac's VM is such an easy target.
> The so called "Ram compressors" resort to compressing RAM only after
> all other methods fail
Not true. Paging out to disk is the last resort.
> But if you want a real challenge --- try writing a ramdoubler kind of
> program for linux.... If you manage to actually speed up a kernel compile,
> I will be impressed.
If you are using gcc, change compilers. Almost every other compiler out
there is faster. Also, gcc assumes an indefinite amount of virtual
memory; it was never designed to run on machines with small memory
footprints. This is one of the bad side effects of having VM; programmers
tend to forget that most of the people using their software don't have the
same amount of resources that they do, and running their software on small
configurations tends to be very, very painful.
--
Nevin ":-)" Liber nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (520) 293-2799
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CS.Arizona.EDU!NewsWatcher!user From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 02:20:08 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona Message-ID: <nevin-1601960220480001@150.135.1.79> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <DKuFyA.D52@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com> <4d3m6o$bb6@macshack.com> <4da419$skl@castle.nando.net> <DL7383.5Bv@wombat.hanse.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu