From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sparc port, number crunching
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:19:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510110919.aa19893@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:50:15 EDT." <ee9e417a0510101250w1094d504q1e2ae53f02e98a50@mail.gmail.com>
This sounds worse than I expected. How much has the platform-dependent
part of the kernel changed since we last had a fully functional sparc
kernel?
On a related note, the plan9 sparc compiler was claimed to produce
code comparable in speed to GCC. Does anyone know how it compares
to Sun's compiler?
> There was a Sparc kernel once, and some people (Chris Collins?)
> have been reviving it, but I don't know that I'd want to depend on
> it being ready in time to use for your app. Perhaps Chris will
> speak up.
>
> Russ
--
John Stalker
University of Dublin, Trinity College
School of Mathematics
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 15:33 John Stalker
2005-10-10 19:44 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-10-10 19:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-11 8:19 ` John Stalker [this message]
2005-10-11 13:16 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-11 15:45 ` John Stalker
2005-10-11 23:45 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-12 0:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-10-12 1:41 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-12 0:05 ` Christopher Nielsen
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