For those running Dovecot on Solaris, what are your positive/negative experiences with building the software with CC vs. GCC? We are currently letting ./configure find our gcc and build with it, but wondered if anyone has any experience with Sun CC (does it even compile, for example).

I once used StudioCC to compile dovecot to see if the problem I had was a compiler bug, but in general, I use gcc since a lot of software is tested against it. I don't use Studio unless performance is critical.

From what I know, IMAP performance is basically disk-memory bounded, so it might not be worth sweating over: use whatever gives you the least grief.

Joseph Tam <tam@math.ubc.ca>