[geeks] w00t! AlphaServer SMP goodness

[dave at cca.org]

mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>   Not recently, no...admittedly it was about 2.5yrs ago.  There were 
>instabilities (unexplained crashes), severe network throughput 
>problems, and terrible performance with some programs due to 
>Alpha-specific alignment fixup issues.

Which reminds me - how well does gcc handle alpha's word-oriented
memory interface? Compared to DEC's compilers?

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