Hi Brian,
I am unclear: what's the problem?
My first inkling is that your Solaris SPARC platform is x10 faster than
your Linux x86 platform.
My second inkling is... how come you are not performance comparing
optimized code (-O2 or -O3)? Unoptimized code can be notoriously ... er,
umm ... unoptimized.
--Eljay