How bad is the PowerPC backend?

[Tim Chevalier]

On 2/9/09, David Brown <haskell at davidb.org> wrote:
>
>  Which CPU is the x86?  The modern x86 CPUs (such as Core2) will be
>  significantly faster than the PowerPC, even at comparable clock rates.
>  Have you just compared even C code tests?
>

I think that goes a long way towards explaining it... a simple C loop
that I tried runs for 4.5s on the PC and 30s on the Mac. So probably
this isn't GHC's fault.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Tim

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