On Tue, September 9, 2008 5:25 am, Zdenek Kotala wrote: > Randal T. Rioux napsal(a): >> I've battled this for a while. I'm finally breaking down and asking for >> help. >> >> If you're answer to this is "why 64-bit" then don't answer. You wouldn't >> understand. Same if you say "why don't you use packages." >> >> Here is my scenerio: >> >> - Sun 420R x450Mhz UltraSPARC-II / 4GB RAM >> - Solaris 10 05/08 >> - OpenSSL 0.9.8h >> - PostgreSQL 8.3.3 >> - GCC 3.4.6 >> - GNU Make 3.81 > > Three questions (yeah, you forbided ask, but ...) grumble grumble grumble... > 1) Why 64 > > 64bit code on SPARC is slower, because SPARC uses 4byte instructions and > processing 64bit data needs more instructions. It is good only if you > need more then 4GB share memory. When you use sunstudio compiler with > best optimization 64bit application has 1%-5% performance degradation. A. Many databases use more than 4GB share memory. B. Re: SunStudio - that's why I'm using GCC. > 2) Why you don't use package > > You can use Solaris'es packages, which are integrated and optimized for > Solaris. Which are bloated with stuff I don't need and missing stuff I do. Not to mention terribly outdated. > 3) Why you don't use build-in libssl? > > Integrated libssl is not only copy of original open ssl. It has lot of > improvements and it uses crypto hardware accelerator if you have it (for > example Niagara 2). But it is 32-bit. Thanks, Randy
