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

[Stephan Richter]

SPARC 2 (40 MHz, 40 MB RAM) -- running X and KDE - Solaris 7
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 40.48
This machine benchmarks at 247.036 pystones/second  

Ultra 5 (166 MHz (?), 128 MB RAM) -- running X and KDE- Solaris 7
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 3.03
This machine benchmarks at 3300.33 pystones/second 

Enterprise 450 (2x266 MHz (?), 1024 MB RAM) -- running many, many services
(only 3 users) - Solaris 7
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 2.03
This machine benchmarks at 4926.11 pystones/second 

Gateway Pentium III (450 MHz, 128MB RAM) -- running X and Zope - Red Hat 6.0
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 1.86
This machine benchmarks at 5376.34 pystones/second  

Pentium I (100MHz, 40MB RAM) -- running Zope - Red Hat 5.2
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 27.82
This machine benchmarks at 359.454 pystones/second  

Note that these machines are not optimized and run a lot of useless services.
I did these tests while I was writing the e-mail. I do not think that Python is
so much slower in Solaris, but UNIX runs so many more processes that a
comparison is not at the right place. You need someone to optimize the machine
only for this test, namely kill all services and minimize the kernel
(optimizations I usually do not care about so much).

regards,
stephan

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Stephan Richter
iXL - Software Designer and Engineer
CBU - Physics, Computer Science and Chemistry Student