Results : 

Binary:Sparc v9a ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, 
          UltraSPARC1 Extensions Required, dynamically linked, not stripped
      :command : povray_sparc_v9a -I./test.pov -f -d -x -p -w640 -h480 +a.1
      :Total Time:    0 hours  2 minutes  33.0 seconds (153 seconds)

Binary:Sparc v9 ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1,
         dynamically linked, not stripped
      :command : povray_sparc_v9  -I./test.pov -f -d -x -p -w640 -h480 +a.1
      :Total Time:    0 hours  2 minutes  36.0 seconds (156 seconds)

Binary:Sparc v8plusa ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC32PLUS Version 1, 
          V8+ Required, UltraSPARC1 Extensions Required, 
          dynamically linked, notstripped
      :command : povray_sparc_v8  -I./test.pov -f -d -x -p -w640 -h480 +a.1
      :Total Time:    0 hours  2 minutes  17.0 seconds (137 seconds)

Binary:Sparc v1 ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, 
          dynamically linked, not stripped
      :command : povray_sparc_v1  -I./test.pov -f -d -x -p -w640 -h480 +a.1
      :Total Time:    0 hours  2 minutes  37.0 seconds (157 seconds)

Binary:Sparc Generic ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, 
          dynamically linked, not stripped
      :command : povray_sparc_generic -I./test.pov -f -d -x -p -w640 -h480 +a.1
      :Total Time:    0 hours  4 minutes  28.0 seconds (268 seconds)


Clearly the Sparc v8plusa is the winner here.  It was compiled with options
-fast -xarch=v8plusa -Xa.  I recompiled the binary with the following options
just to be sure 
-dalign -fsimple=0 -xO4 -ftrap=%none -libmil -s -temp=/tmp/compiler -v -Xa
-xarch=v8plusa and that resulted in Total Time:    0 hours  2 minutes  32.0
seconds (152 seconds)

Dennis Clarke

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