On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:23:20PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > Reasons might be many and various: memory bandwidth being _much_ lower > on all but the latest Apple machines, compared to equivalent i386 boxes, > being one of them. RISC vs. CISC code generation might be another, also > that is pure speculation on my part. Different levels of compiler > omptimisation might be another.
someone said on irc that compiling risc code will be slower since the compiler has to generate more instructions then on cisc. makes sense i suppose. > It would be interesting to do a series of crosscompilation benchmarks > (compile i386 and PPC kernels on each, plus a third, architecture)... if the above is true it probably wouldn't make that much difference.. would be intriguing though -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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