Mathematica not native on Sun Solaris
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg3157] Mathematica not native on Sun Solaris
- From: stankerr at uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr)
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 03:01:24 -0500
- Organization: University of Illinois/CCSO
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
This is cross-posted to comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica and comp.sys.sun.apps. One of our users who is running Solaris 2.5 on her SPARC is concerned that the Solaris version of Mathematica requires the presence of a binary compatibility library. Besides the issue of a compatibility library that Sun might remove unexpectedly at some point, creating problems for code that depends on it, she suspects the library might have a significant effect on Mathematica's performance, versus what it could be in a Solaris native version. Our contacts at Wolfram don't seem to think it's a great concern and said they might run some comparative benchmarks for us; I'm no judge since I don't use Suns. Has anybody anything to offer? Is it a significant issue? -- Stan Kerr, Computing & Communications Services Office/U of Illinois stankerr at uiuc.edu ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====