Ken, among the several important issues here is CPU/chipset architecture. My infrastructure is Intel, so I can't speak to AMD. "Hyperthreading", introduced with the later P4's, and still in the old i7 I use, is better than not having it, but not a lot. Even with multicore CPU's there'd be an issue of CPU scheduling at the hardware level, dare I suggest that Intel might even be able to change that at the microcode patch level, not to mention Linux kernel. There is still competition for CPU/chipset/bandwidth, that'd be different for different architectures and there's no way to predict the user's case.
I'd go with the suggestion to note on the larger packages, those using C++, (JAVA?), that predictions are just unreliable. (reminding me of some primitive peoples who count: one, two, many.) -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
