On 2010-03-29, at 2:11 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, John M McIntosh wrote: > >> Actually one *can* make the linux VM faster than the MacOS one on the same >> hardware using just the right version of GCC. >> >> But frankly the *easiest* way of doing that is for Pharo to fund the yearly >> license for using the Intel Compiler and provide a >> one-click Intel compiler based VM. > > For Intel CPUs that's a good solution, but those binaries would be really > slow on AMD and VIA CPUs. > > > Levente
Maybe, assuming someone runs some numbers, and/or you think that intel purposely trashes performance on those machines if you use their compilers? Also is the linux crowd 100% AMD/VIA? If it's only 20% as per the Intel CPU market share, then maybe the 80% of linux intel CPU based users would enjoy better performance versus a muddled offering in order to keep in line with the slowest 20% of the user base? -- =========================================================================== John M. McIntosh <john...@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com ===========================================================================
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