Hi, Mian,

Your observation is correct.  FastBit does spend more time on IO than 
CPU, therefore, it is more important to figure out how to do IO faster..

John


On 3/21/2010 5:33 AM, Mian Lu wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> I wonder the performance bottleneck of bitmap type query is usually
> dominated by I/O or CPU processing time? I see some paper said it was
> bounded by CPUs. However, from FastBit, it looks like the CPU processing
> is usually faster than I/O on my machine. I am thinking about using
> multi-core or GPUs to accelerate the query processing. I am not sure
> whether it is worthwhile. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Mian
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