Re: Oracle on a webserver

Piotr Kolodziej wrote:

> khan_at_informatik.fh-hamburg.de wrote in message
> <3677D36B.C7592B9A_at_informatik.fh-hamburg.de>...
> >But FX!32 isn't an emulator. When FX!32 is starting an application, it is
> >transforming Intel code.
>
> But don't expect that code transformed with FX!32 is as good as from
> alpha dedicated compiler compiling similiar source code.
> Compilers usualy offers much more optimizations than on-fly code translators.
>

Mr. Kolodziej, no i don't expect this as i stated in my mail

> Khan wrote : vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> >Thought this is never as fast as native applications on alpha, but real-world
> >experiences show as well, that NT is horrible slow on alpha, even it is in
> >native code, due to the fact, that it is a 32bit OS.
>
> I have not experiences with Alpha NT, but I have heard some opposite opinions

I have experiences with NT on Alpha, Linux on Alpha and Digital Unix on Alpha.

IMO experiences are sometimes better than opinions.

:-)

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Ronald Ali-Khan
khan_at_informatik.fh-hamburg.de
Hamburg, Germany Received on Thu Dec 17 1998 - 07:10:11 CST