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> All platform are linux/i386 using redhat 7.2 and latest libraries
I'm guessing that one platform has "locale" enabled (or some combination
of multibyte parameters?), whereas the other does not. SMP will not make
a difference in configuration or optimizer choices.
The good news is that you have *one* machine which does what you want,
so we know that we can get the other one doing that too :)
- Thomas