> Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba wrote:
> > time for compaq - 0m57s
> > time for sun - 5m34s
> >
> > any idea why sun version is so slow ?
>
> Size of memory on Sun ? (swap ?)

2 GB, swap 2 GB
sun is completly free (no tasks) and Peak memory used: 3.366.977 bytes
compaq has 1 GB RAM and no swap

> Running X11/Openview ?

yes
compaq has NT - isn't it comparable ?

> Running unneeded network daemon (NFS server/client) ?

no

> Running/Writing/Reading on a remote partition ?

no

> Processor performing Floating-Point by software ?

no

> Not enough FPU per processor ? (1 is not enough...)

I don't know. How can I check this ?

> Options of gcc (-03 does not perform ALL the optimisations)

but isn't it enough to fight with slow CygWin compilation ?

> Bad optimisations by gcc ?

perhaps

> Different CPU speed ? (what's the frequency of the sun ?)

sun is 300 MHz - but as I know it is comparable with at least 500 MHz pentium
compaq is 1 GHz

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