Some time ago, there was a brief thread about zope on Sun. Does Python 1.5.2 run slower than might be hoped ? Two examples - taken from real boxes running real jobs. The bigger box was running more/other tasks than the littler one but load average never got beyond 1.0. Note that the Lintel box was a midvintage PII350 (92mB ram !) server running a squid proxy - surely not twice as fast as a lightly loaded dual cpu sun ?. Exhibit one: pystone.py on sin - Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 5.57 This machine benchmarks at 1795.33 pystones/second On the LIntel box it was: Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 2.36 This machine benchmarks at 4237.29 pystones/second Exhibit 2: A self timing site generating (zclass based - no ZSQL) zope script on a Linuxtel box with Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr 14 1999, 10:34:26) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2 took 1min:10sec. On a dual cpu Sun called sin, (running Python 1.5.2 (#1, Oct 13 1999, 11:11:12) [GCC 2.95.1 19990816 (release)]) on sun os5, it took 2min:48sec. Is it GCC that makes the sun slower than one might hope ? Anyone ? -- Ross Lazarus Email: rossl@med.usyd.edu.au http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/people/rossl.htm