PowerMac vs. Intel for PowerPC Development Host

[Eugene Surovegin]

At 05:22 PM 2/19/2003, Paul Mackerras wrote:

>Chris Wedgwood writes:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:52:58PM -0800, brian.auld at adic.com wrote:
> >
> > > In the Intel vs. Mac debate for a linux development host for
> > > embedded ppc development, if money was not an issue, would I get
> > > more PowerMac recommendations??
> >
> > Despire what Apple and a few other people claim, Intel solutions are
> > faster in terms of compile times, and if money was no barrier, then
> > Intel solutions are potentially *much* faster.
>
>As an actual data point: my measurements show that a dual 1GHz G4
>powermac is more than twice as fast at compiling PPC kernels as a
>1.7GHz P4 (single cpu).
>
>You can't fairly compare compiling a PPC kernel on a PPC box with
>compiling an x86 kernel on an x86 box.  GCC does more work compiling
>for PPC than for x86.

My 5 cents :)

I tried to compile the _same_ PPC kernel for one of boards (440GP based).

Cross compiling on PIII 755Mhz running SuSE        - 16 min
Cross compiling on G4 PowerBook 1Ghz running YDL   - 6 min

Eugene


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