EGCS-971016: i686 Linux vs. SparcULTRA Solaris

[Fred Richardson]

Wolfram-

>>  If what you are reporting as `SIZE' is the maximum memory footprint of
>>  the application, then I am not that surprised.  The malloc in Linux
>>  libc and glibc (by Doug Lea) is heavily optimized for memory savings
>>  (while remaining quite fast as well).  I haven't seen a malloc version
>>  that performs better in this respect; see

Thanks for the tip!  Indeed this solves the allocation problem.  Here
are my new set of stats:

Solaris2.5  UltraSPARC 170  (192 MB RAM, 830 MB VIRTUAL):
     TIME:   547.24
     SIZE:   138224K

Linux2.0    i686            (386 MB RAM, 1.04 GB VIRTUAL):
    TIME:   359.37s
    SIZE:   138012K


Now memory allocation is about the same on both platforms (no real
suprise since the malloc package is now the same).  But the speed is 
still an issue.  I probably need some UltraSPARC changes to the
optimizer (does anyone know if there are any out there?).

            Thanks,

                -Fred