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by apaprocki 4496 days ago
What surprised me most is that SPARC is only ~2x slower after all these years (3.6ghz T5 / Sol11) ;)

    $ time perl -e 'for ($i = 0; $i < 100_000_000; $i++) { $s = "SCaLE12x" }'
    
    real    0m33.59s
    user    0m33.57s
    sys     0m0.00s
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twoodfin 4496 days ago
I know multithread is the T5 sweet spot (to put it mildly), but my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro hits 10s and cost ~$2,800. The cheapest T5 I can find on Oracle's site starts at around $28,000.

I'm only jealous because I'd really like my employer to buy a T5 for compiling and running our software on Solaris SPARC, but unfortunately I don't think it's justified given the state of the platform.

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