Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:30:15 -0700 (PDT) > youshi10_at_u.washington.edu wrote: > > >> I just wanted to thank everyone who helped make the gcc 4.2 merge >> possible -- I can see a noticeable performance increase (1.5x ~ 2.0x >> load time decrease) in my server (P4 HTT with SMP). >> >> This will be one of the great changes that will put FreeBSD back on >> the map closer to many Linux distros. >> >> Once gcc 4.2.1 gets in the tree, things will be much better, I'm >> sure :). >> >> Thank you very much, and let me know if you need testing with gcc >> 4.2.1 when it rolls around ;). >> >> -Garrett >> >> > Thanks, but I think kudos are addressed to wrong people. I very much > doubt that GCC can be responsible for any, let alone dramatic, > performance differences. Most likely you see effects of hard work done > by SMP scalability guys. > > Ok. Interesting. All the changes I could see were at the kernel level (I saw a speed improvement after installing the kernel, before I ran make installworld). -GarrettReceived on Mon Jun 04 2007 - 13:27:37 UTC
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