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Betr.: Re: [parisc-linux] Linux/PA-RISC speed (was Re: C240

DISCUSSION Alan Cox 1 participant 1 message Nov 16, 2001 1 message not in the archive

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In what way? It's not like the ./configure script will produce very = different
results on alpha vs parisc, it doesn't even check for 64 bits/32 bits differences. All this just demonstrated my gut feeling that compiling ( the kernel, for example) feels slower on parisc than it should be.

The amount of work to build a kernel for a given platofrm depends a lot on the CPU, the number of instructions and the number of combinations of optimisations