I dont think Oracle, which they use I believe has recompiled to take
advantage of the P4. And I doubt they ever will.
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian L. Watt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: Benchmarks
> Did they recompile the code to take advantaged of the new P4 architecture.
> That could make an incredible difference in itself!!!
>
> CW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:18 AM
> To: CF-Server
> Subject: Re: Benchmarks
>
>
> How much ram were you using?
> Thanks.
> Jon.
>
> Steve wrote:
>
> > I promise you that you can tell the difference if you are doing video
> > encoding.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:14 AM
> > Subject: Benchmarks
> >
> > > I thought I'd post some very interesting benchmarks that I suspected
to
> be
> > the case, but never have been able to confirm it myself. These are
> > especially enlightening to me because of the seemingly blind adherance
to
> > Intel in the server world that we are a part of.
> > > AnandTech recently did a review of the new Dual P4 Xeon's. One
benchmark
> > was partcularily interesting.
> > > They recorded a 30 minute transaction log of their forums, which runs
> > FuseTalk. During the 30 minute recording there were: 105267 selects,
4984
> > updates, 701 inserts and 5 deletes performed on the database. They then
> ran
> > the transaction logs on each of the platforms they tested.
> > >
> > > Heres what they found:
> > >
> > > Dual P4 Xeon 1.7 GHZ
> > > 14m 49s
> > > Dual P3 933 MHz
> > > 22m 34s
> > > Single P4 Xeon 1.7GHZ
> > > 22m 31s
> > >
> > > and the shocker
> > >
> > > Single AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz
> > > 18m 6s
> > >
> > > Here is a link to the article:
> > > http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1472
> > >
> > > Considering the huge price gap between a dual P3 and a run of the mill
> > Athlon this seems incredible to me.
> > >
> > > My only comment wuold be, the next time you throw money at a problem.
> You
> > might want to throw it in the right direction!
> > >
> > > I cant say how many times, the Intel drones in this industry have
> > questioned me when I in passing mention that I only use AMD chips. It
just
> > comes down to price for me, but now I can stand on firm ground and tell
> them
> > to go waste their money!
> > > Of course, someone will eventually try to pull the reliability card.
It
> > will be of no use, I have had ammo there for a while now.
> > >
> > > jon
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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