[Zope] More Pystone benchmarks...

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Tony McDonald wrote:

> Sun (4 x 250 MHz Ultrasparc II)  running Solaris 5.6 = 2200 (lots of 
> stuff going on)  (a)
> DELL (Pentium III 450MHz) running SUSE 6 = 5800

> Q: How comes the Sun boxes are just so bad at Python? is the Sparc 
> architecture *that* bad?

You are comparing 250MHz CPU's to 450MHz PIII's. Intel still wins out
per MHz, but Sparc arcitecture wins out when you have more than 4 threads
(as you can have more than 4 CPU's). And probably even with 2 threads
depending on what OS you run on the Intel box. There are other issues,
such as how much memory you can cram into the box (1GB max for intel still?)
and the interleaving of your memory (allowing you to such down a larger
chunk of memory per CPU cycle) which won't be taken into account with
PyStones.

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