Hi all, did some more Pystone benchmarks. As usual, with all benchmarks treat these as total fabrications... PowerMac 5400 (180 MHz 603e) running linuxppc (this is my dev box at home) = 890 iMac (266 MHz G3) MacOS 8.6 = 4800 Sun (4 x 250 MHz Ultrasparc II) running Solaris 5.6 = 2200 (lots of stuff going on) (a) Sun (1 x 350 MHz Ultrasparc IIi ) running Solaris 5.7 = 2600 (lightly loaded) (b) DELL (Pentium III 450MHz) running SUSE 6 = 5800 using Apache benchmark with a static HTML page through Apache, not Zope (page may have a couple of SSIs in it); (a) concurrency = 250, number of times = 10,000 gives 457 requests/s (b) c= 250, n = 10,000 gives 141 requests/s ie these boxes aren't slow... Q: How comes the Sun boxes are just so bad at Python? is the Sparc architecture *that* bad? weird. hth tone. ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2