First compile and run on Solaris 10.

I've got first run of one of my quad-store benchmarks running on my Solaris 10 boxes.

I needed to make the machine architecture and a flag whether or not to use SSE2 environment variables, and add some extra #defines so none of the SSE stuff was included. I needed a macro to fake posix_memalign, though will think about using another malloc-based version. Compiling on Solaris also generates warnings for automatic promotion of -1 to an unsigned int so I added explicit casts (-1 is returned by some functions where 0 is a valid return and something is needed to signal an invalid value).

Running the compression benchmark, the sparc (440MHz) doesn't seem to get cpu bound for small files (100MiB):

tercel-1$ uname -a
SunOS tercel-1 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine

tercel-1$ time bin/lzw_bench datasets/original/triples.sql 100
...
read: 100 MiB, compressed to: 21 MiB.

real 0m23.094s
user 0m20.973s
sys 0m1.715s

tercel-1$ time bin/lzw_bench datasets/original/triples.sql 1000
...
read: 1000 MiB, compressed to: 301 MiB.

real 3m55.124s
user 3m39.377s
sys 0m12.550s

fortinbras$ uname -a
Linux fortinbras 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Aug 30 23:16:15 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
fortinbras$ time bin/lzw_bench datasets/original/triples.sql 100
...
read: 100 MiB, compressed to: 21 MiB.

real 0m8.638s
user 0m5.784s
sys 0m0.296s

fortinbras$ time bin/lzw_bench datasets/original/triples.sql 1000
...
read: 1000 MiB, compressed to: 301 MiB.

real 0m56.176s
user 0m43.667s
sys 0m1.948s
The processor in fortinbras is Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ at 2200 MHz, the Netra at 440 MHz, and appears to be about a quarter as fast at a fifth of the clock speed.

On the other hand, running the Netra at full doesn't heat my lap up, I've three of them, they've more, faster disks available and I can play with making the quad-store distribute between them.

Whether they hold up as well against the benchmarks which use SSE to make the Athlon wider I'll have to find out.


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