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Re: Why Linux, Why Debian



On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:48:33PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > ssh is significantly slower on SPARC Linux than on SPARC/Solaris or
> > > Intel. Something about the optimisation of the crypto code.  While there
> > > are issues like that it's difficult to do good tests for comparing
> > > machines.
> >
> > errr.. that sounds rather odd. Surely, using gcc x.y.z on sparc linux,
> > should result in pretty much the same optimization as on sparc solaris,
> > when it comes to user-level code.

Yeah, but Solaris doesn't use gcc, and the native compiler is
significantly better on sparc than gcc is.

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200203/msg00189.html

That should have been fixed in Debian a long time ago.

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