On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Newsmirror wrote:

> > Pls benchmark before talking. A thin client written in C is so fast that
> > its execution time literally vanish compared to the execution time of your
> > filter. I had something like this that I was using to load an SMTP server
> > for benchmark testing and it was capable of 600000 runs per hour on a
> > PIII 900MHz.
> >
>
> I've benchmarked the Scope client to the point of 10000 rounds, and I can
> tell from this that HDD and CPU makes impact on performance.  Without
> anything to compare the benchmark with, it doesn't tell anything though
> whether this or that approach is better.

Look, a thin clien written in C will be about 30Kb in size and after one
run it'll fit the buffer cache of any sane OS ( yes, even windows ). The
CPU and HD I/O you're looking at _is_ the activity that the server does do.



- Davide

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