From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] sparc port, number crunching In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:50:15 EDT." References: <200510101633.aa68635@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:19:05 +0100 From: John Stalker Message-ID: <200510110919.aa19893@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 99933768-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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