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Re: Mathematica not native on Sun Solaris

• Subject: [mg3177] Re: Mathematica not native on Sun Solaris
• From: tony at pascale.Princeton.EDU ()
• Date: 14 Feb 1996 06:56:37 -0600
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I have tried both native and non native versions.
MM 2.2.2 is native (but the front end is unuseable)
while the most recent version
2.2.3 is non native  ( with a little more
stable frontend). There is a clear difference in performance
(perhaps 40%). Worse all the binaries are SPARC 7 and do
not use the more recent integer instructions in the sparc 8 
machines that are now available.  Hence the medicocre performance
of MMA on sparcs.



Anthony Maggs
tony at turner.espci.fr