At 05:22 PM 2/19/2003, Paul Mackerras wrote: >Chris Wedgwood writes: > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:52:58PM -0800, brian.auld at adic.com wrote: > > > > > In the Intel vs. Mac debate for a linux development host for > > > embedded ppc development, if money was not an issue, would I get > > > more PowerMac recommendations?? > > > > Despire what Apple and a few other people claim, Intel solutions are > > faster in terms of compile times, and if money was no barrier, then > > Intel solutions are potentially *much* faster. > >As an actual data point: my measurements show that a dual 1GHz G4 >powermac is more than twice as fast at compiling PPC kernels as a >1.7GHz P4 (single cpu). > >You can't fairly compare compiling a PPC kernel on a PPC box with >compiling an x86 kernel on an x86 box. GCC does more work compiling >for PPC than for x86.
My 5 cents :) I tried to compile the _same_ PPC kernel for one of boards (440GP based). Cross compiling on PIII 755Mhz running SuSE - 16 min Cross compiling on G4 PowerBook 1Ghz running YDL - 6 min Eugene ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
