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Re: architecture advantage?

From: Alexander Bochmann (ablists.gxis.de)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 05:45:05 CDT


Hi,

...on Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:00:17PM -0700, rickie kerndt wrote:

> >There was a time when one saw a performance boost in ssh login times
> >on SUN4m machines by an optimization so the compiler used the advanced
> >features of the 4m, and not defaulting to the 4/4c code, but that's
> This is still true. A good 3X boost. On my Sparc 5 time to login for ssh
> localhost drops from 10s to 3s.

Btw., I've made several full builds (including kernel) of
different OpenBSD versions with -msupersparc, and never
seen any unusual problems on my SS5 (but then I mostly use
it as xterminal).

Alex.