On Wed, September 10, 2008 10:54 am, Zdenek Kotala wrote: >>> 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. > > Of course but you mention that you have only 4GB RAM. This is my test machine :-) >> B. Re: SunStudio - that's why I'm using GCC. > > I don't understand you there. Sunstudio generates better code on SPARC > and it is faster than code produced with GCC. I read your statement too fast. Nevermind my response to that. >>> 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 to mention terribly outdated. > > Could you be more specific? If is there something what you missing or > what is wrong in Solaris'es packages let me know. Maybe I can improve it. I just don't like the Solaris package system in general. It is, dare I say, worse than RPM. But this is a PostgreSQL list, so I'll save the rant! >>> 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. > > No, You have 64bit version in /usr/sfw/lib/64. I did not know that! I need to check it out later. Thanks for the tip. Randy
