On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> Yes, the iBook CPU is 200 Mhz slower, and god only knows how we can
> compare a P3 to G3, but 2.5 times the time taken is a bit much. Coming
> back to my initial assertion -- Could some of this be attributed to the
> way the perl binary is compiled?
There's too many variables here to draw any meaningful conclusions. Rather
than compare the PC to the Mac, try to compare just GCC to $other_compiler
by, for example, comparing two different versions of Perl on just the PC.
My understanding is that ActiveState compiles their software against VC++,
while my assumption is that Cygwin probably compiles theirs against GCC.
So it try that way then: install the ActiveState & Cygwin versions of Perl
on your PC (and for laughs, maybe install Cygwin's development tools and
build your own copy of Perl against their version of GCC, just so you
don't have to wonder how they built theirs), Then repeat your test (and
maybe others) comparing the two versions of Perl on the same machine.
If you do it that way, you'll eliminate any differences between processor
architectures & speeds, ram quantity & speed, operating system quirks,
etc.
I'd be interested in the results of such a test, actually...
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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