On Friday 22 June 2001 06:59 pm, Jonathan Drews wrote:
Hi Joshua:
On Thursday 21 June 2001 22:10, you wrote:
Anyone with 7.2 up & running here that could send answers to Joshua here ? Send him at isd@as.uaf.edu
> Forwarded message from "Joshua J. Kugler"
Any other pertinent information you feel necessary.
One of the curious things I have found is that SuSE runs scientific software like Octave and Scilab significantly faster than does Mandrake 8.0. For instance, I had Octave do a calculation that involved 32,000,000 floating point numbers and it was completed in about 12 minutes with SuSE 7.1. With Mandrake 8.0, I finally killed Octave when the run time exceeded an hour, for an almost identical computation. I would love to know why, in particular, Octave runs quite fast on SuSe but is excessively slow when run on Mandrake 8.0? Is there a special priority given to desktop apps in SuSE?
This might be a compiler issue. SuSE 7.x uses the GCC2.95.2 compiler, and Mandrake uses the GCC2.96 compiler, which is not ready for prime time, imho. I had a number of problems with my C programs on this compiler, so I ditched RH7 (which uses the same compiler as MDK8) and went with SuSE. I haven't had a problem since. -Steven