>> On 16 May 1998 05:14:23 -0000, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
ES> "Chuck Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The only reason linux is so popular is it is free and most of the
>> software is free. Solaris has a far more robust kernel
ES> I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge bloated inefficient pig
ES> of a kernel as compared to Linux. They do wacky things like
ES> allow interrupt handlers to sleep() by automatically forking
...
ES> And calling the Solaris kernel robust is a joke. I can't
ES> count the number of different poison packets and
ES> christmas-tree packets that I've discovered that will cause it
We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have
only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very efficient.
The kernel is completely modularized (more than Linux) so only what
you use is loaded.
I run some quite large applications on them, and network services (>30
requets per second) and have uptimes of over 80 days now.
Is your opinion based on real experience with recent versions of
Solaris?
ES> Personally it's far more important to me that I get high
ES> performance from the kernel, than how many clever new
ES> theoretical constructs it uses. If that means that driver
ES> writers and kernel hackers need to think a little about how to
ES> write their code, instead of using inefficient safety nets, so
ES> be it.
Blerg, too complicated and dangerous constructs will inevitably lead
to more and more bugs (real or performance bugs).
>> and their C/C++ compilers are unparralled in performance and ability.
ES> The Sun C/C++ compilers didn't seem so great to me. I've seen
ES> cases where they choked on perfectly legal ANSI C code, and
ES> other cases where they compiled illegal code without so much
ES> as a warning, let alone an error. I'll take GCC over Sun
ES> compilers any day.
I do like gcc because you know you can have the same compiler and thus
predictable behaviour everywhere, and because it is the only thing
freely available, but calling gcc better than compilers such as SUN
C++ is plainly ridiculous. gcc is nice but does have quite some
shortcomings, especially w.r.t. some newer C++ constructs and
w.r.t. performance on quite a few types of CPU.
gcc 2.8.x is improving this situation a bit, but still suffers from a
lot of bugs.
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