[Zope] Re: Intel vs AMD

[Charlie Reiman]

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> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> THoffman@indtech.wa.gov.au
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:30 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: Intel vs AMD
>
>
> Hmmm
>
> Actually I will take some of this back.
>
> It seems even on my single CPU notebook multiple pystones running
> concurrently do not exhibit the behaviour I would expect from a CPU
> oriented benchmark.
>
> Rgds
>
> Tim

I was wondering about this...

It turns out pystones uses clock(), which is CPU time used (on Unix
systems). It other words, it shouldn't matter if you run 1 or 10 at once,
you'll get the same answer. In terms of benchmarking python, this is great
since it makes the test results stable.

But you'll need a different benchmark to test multitasking/SMP situations.