[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] newDelta >0 failed in sqUnixMemory

[Andreas Raab]

John M McIntosh wrote:
> Yes, I can't recall it was what 50% of the performance of a 3.x compile 
> out of the box, and after *much*
> tweaking of compiler flags it was mmm just 20% slower..   Well certainly 
> the performance impact was measured in 10 of percent.

So what do you use today? gcc 4? And how does it stack up 
performance-wise against a Windows VM on the same box? I personally 
wouldn't mind moving forward but the results in the past were so 
godawful that I haven't tried in a long time.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> On 30-Jan-09, at 4:33 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:
>>
>> John McIntosh and I actually spent some time a few ago compiling VMs on
>> Windows and MacOS with the newest GCCs and ran into a bunch of problems,
>> especially concerning performance. I had to put the work on the back
>> burner for now, but switching to newer compilers will take a bit of
>> extra work at some point.
>>
>> Michael
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