Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Alex Stamos wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > What's the actual background behind this?
> > >
> > > Being able to track 911 calls in the case of emergency.
> >
> > While some people may find this a convenient excuse for more Big Brother tactics,
> > I once spoke to a paramedic friend about 911 cell phone tracking after it was first
> > announced. She said that she couldn't overestimate the problems caused by people
> > giving bad directions or locations over cell phones. Apparently, its not uncommon
> > for a person, still dazed from an accident, to report their location as "Somewhere
> > on Interstate 80". -For those non-Americans, I-80 is a 3,000 mile freeway that
> > starts in San Francisco and ends in Boston.-
>
> Well, New York. It also includes some of the emptiest parts of the continental
> USA, mostly in Nevada and Utah.
>
> The problem is a lot worse in the empty places, where you have thousands of miles
> of unpaved roads that still manage to get some mobile phone coverage. The analog
> cell tower in Callao, Utah, for instance, covers a fixed population of about 100
> people, and an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
>
> > On another topic, I recently read an article on Ace's Hardware comparing the
> > performance of standard benchmarks, on a Alpha 21264 under Linux, compiled with the
> > GCC and Compaq's proprietary compiler. Compaq's C compiler kicked GCC's ass in
> > almost every metric. My questions: Is such a compiler available for *BSD? Why is
> > GCC so bad at Alpha optimization when it does so well on x86? Is somebody asleep
> > at the wheel here?
>
> Who said it's any good at X86 optimization?
I find setiathome, which was compiled with an Intel compiler on the
Windows side, out calculates setiathome on the same computer 20-25% on
the average when I boot FreeBSD 4.0 and run it there.
Kent
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