[Zope] Python performance of SPARC vs Intel (was: [Zope] contrasting Zope vs. Vignette) Vignette)

[Hannu Krosing]

Christopher Petrilli wrote:
>
> > When the cache is not in use StoryServer appears quite slow.  Even
> > with the cache they only claimed 1M hits/day using a dual CPU Ultra 2
> > sparc, which sounds much less than Zope.
> 
> While we're not a big SPARC shop, a minor projection of current benchmarks
> we've done with ZEO indicate that on a dual CPU box (with 2 ZEO clients, and
> a storage server) that we could achieve somewhere around 3.2M hits assuming
> a minimal level of dynamicism.  Because of our strong dynamic nature, the
> more dynamic, the less throughput you get---it's just more cycles per
> request.  I would say a HIGHLY dynamic site on such a box would perform
> around 1-1.5M hits live, as opposed to cached.
> 

I would be much interested on the performance of python on some high-end 
SPARC box.

From my limited testing (using pystone.py), the SPARCs appear to be
_much_
slower for python code.

my home Celeron450 runs at

[hannu@kodu hannu]$ /usr/lib/python1.5/test/pystone.py
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 1.71
This machine benchmarks at 5847.95 pystones/second

and dual PentiomIIIXeon 500/512 IBM Netfinity at:

[hannu@nf hannu]$ /usr/lib/python1.5/test/pystone.py
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 1.65
This machine benchmarks at 6060.61 pystones/second

It would be nice to get some comparison numbers from other chip
architectures.

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Hannu