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Re: IDL Solaris much slower than Intel [message #15190]

Wed, 28 April 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Axel Schweiger (axel@apl.washington.edu) writes:

> We recently did some comparisons running IDL 5.1 under
> Solaris Ultra 10 333Mhz
> and on 400Mhz Pentium II under Linux. The Pentium ran about twice as fast for
> most of our tests, even published SPEC numbers show the SUN should be a bit
> faster
> for floating point operations. I've inquired @rsinc about that and got a reply
> that they added me to a "feature request" to optimize for UltraSparc. Sooo,
> anybody who
> has had similar experiences may want to lend weight to this "Feature Request".

While you're waiting, you could start saving your pennies for
that new DELL computer. :-)

Cheers,

David

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