[kde-solaris] Is kde-forte's performance claim a myth?
Lars Tunkrans
lars.tunkrans at bredband.net
Tue Jan 18 20:54:51 CET 2005
rain cip wrote:
>>To get full benefit of forte you should enable all
>>the architecture specific optimizations
>
>
> Totally agree. But has the KDE Forte package been
> optimized for the sparcv9 architecture? What was the
> optimization level used when the package was compiled?
>
> rain
>
$ cd /opt/kde*/bin
$ file kate
kate: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC32PLUS Version 1, V8+ Required, UltraSPARC1 Extensions Required, dynamically linked, stripped
Has likely been compiled with " -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v8plus "
This is what you need to use if you want to address a large audience.
the potential users here are all UltraSparc computers. ( i.e UltraSparc 1, UltraSparc II , UltraSparc III & IV )
if you target UltraSparc III specifically with :
-xtarget=ultra3 -xarch=v8plusb
Or a unic chip like UltraSparc IIIi :
-xtarget=ultra3i -xarch=v8plusb -xcache=64/32/4:1024/64/4
you get better performance but have to make lots of binary distributions, one for each CPU chip,
probably more than 5 different sets, and then handhold all the people who
cant be bothered to find out which exact binary distro that will run
on their particular workstation.
Pls Note that -xarch=v9 generates 64 bit binaries.
//Lars
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