On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:06:26 -0400, Sebastian H. wrote:


>> Yes, it's a very real effect.  I got 10 seconds to render Skyvase under
>> Windows, and 24 seconds under Linux.  The reason for this is the
>> different compilers used: in the Windows version, the compiler produced
>> several versions of parts of the code, each version optimized for a
>> different CPU.  This gives a larger but faster binary than the Linux
>> compiler, which appears to have optimized for a generic x86 processor.
>> 
>> 
> Nice and not nice to know...
> Would a for the specific (linux) system optimized compilation gain the
> speed of the windows bins?
 
Maybe with the Intel compiler, but probably not with gcc.  Speed is no
longer a reason to use the Unix version, and it hasn't been for quite some time.

-Mark Gordon

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