On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0700, Scott Walters wrote: > Perl 5 runs *awesome* on a 486/25. Java (Kaffe) is completely unusable. > AWT windows come up in a matter of *days*, whereas a Tk window comes up > in about 45 seconds. On a fast computer, these things are blurred. The point > is, you can thrash your system on a faster computer, but register renaming, a > large L2 cache, lots of disc bandwidth to thrash with etc obscured the fact > that you are wasting resources horribly.
perl builds damn fine on a K5/133 with 16M of RAM. parrot now takes 4 hours in swap hell to compile the computed goto ops. But that's a different story, and wondering how gcc works isn't the purpose of this list. (No, I'm not going to *buy* a faster machine. The whole point is that this machine was free, and is upgraded with other people's cast-offs. But if anyone can suggest where to prod the code to make it compile faster with no loss of functionality I'll have a prod. I prodded Encode's compiler on 5.7.3, and in addition to going faster on my box, it also went significantly faster on everyone else's sensibly sized machines. But that was optimising perl, whereas computed goto is C.) Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
