On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:16:24PM -0400, Heitzso wrote: > Eric Wong wrote: > > >I used very conservative optimizations, but nevertheless, it looks good > >in some cases. > > > >http://www.yhbt.net/normalperson/debian/html/benchmark.html > > > >apt-fu and my modified pentium-builder available here: > >http://www.yhbt.net/normalperson/debian/ > > > > > > > Can your tools work in a debian-sparc environment? > And how do your tools differ from the apt-build > tools (both standard distribution and debtoo flavor)? > Thanks! > > BTW, a simple integer math loop test on sparc32 > dual hypersparc 150 cpus: > gcc no optimizations or arch spec'ed --- 4:48 (4 minutes, 48 seconds) > -O --- 0:18 (0 minutes, 18 seconds) > -O1 --- 0:18 > -O2 --- 0:18 > -O2 -mv8 --- 0:12 > -O2 -mv8 -mcpu=hypersparc --- 0:12 > -O2 -mv8 -mcpu=hypersparc -mtune=hypersparc --- 0:12 > -Os --- 0:24 > -mv8 --- 3:50 (experiment, just arch no optimizations)
Did you try -mv8+ ? Is there such a thing? > It appears that source build tailored to -mv8 should > yield some speedup over -mv7 flavor distributed. > I'm still trying to get a ssh logon to my ss20 to drop > down to a few seconds. Somewhat frustrating for every > cvs/email/ssh (all using ssl) to take about 10 seconds for > the ssl to setup. libssl is the thing. a long time ago i built the libssl packages for mv8+ and put them on my website, but that was many security and other changes ago. the point being that if you can't find any prebuilt packages by searching these archives or with google, then it is perfectly possible to do it yourself. i think various people have also posted on this list what the changes are to build that lib with those compiler switches. This might be good for a starting place: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=101919235803803&w=2 a

