On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 02:58, Colin Leroy wrote: > Maybe it's due to the fact gcc is not as optimized on ppc as it is on x86.Or, > your ibook may not run at full speed ? I remember something like
Although my guess would be that it's a simple matter of disk speed - if the x86 is a desktop, it will have a faster drive (most likely). RAM is also a factor (cache etc) real test would be using a cross-compiler (well, better at least... as they'd be doing the same job)
