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