On 17 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
> We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have
> only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very efficient.
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that Solaris requires 128MB to do
anything useful, it runs very nicely in 64MB, maybe 32MB if you don't ask
too much of it. That's really still a bit of a pig of a system
requirement. But Linux runs nicely in 16MB. I think Solaris will boot in
16MB, but not much more than that...
> The kernel is completely modularized (more than Linux) so only what you
Linux is getting more modularized in 2.1. By 2.2 (which should hopefully
be forthcoming within a month or two) it should have caught up in this
area (and SMP, the other Linux weak spot compared to Solaris).
> I do like gcc because you know you can have the same compiler and thus
> predictable behaviour everywhere, and because it is the only thing
Well, gcc is predictable everywhere, which is why so many free programs
(and a few commercial ones) are happiest being compiled by GCC. GCC does
have bad C++ support. And the optimizations are necessarily more general
in nature (because of running on so many platforms) so you lose neat
chip-specific optimizations like you can get with Sun's cc running on a
Sparc system. And by far the most installations of GCC run under some
sort of X86 based system, and thus, most of the work on GCC pertains to
this platform as well. And if you run the "optimized" Pentium or egcs
GCC's you run the risk of the compiler producing completely wrong code.
So Sun's cc does have a lot of advantages. On the other hand, it DOES
choke on perfectly legal ANSI C code, and that's definitely a black mark
in the Sun department. And of course, the cost...
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