> Leon,
> I just ran your timing script and came up with these times:
>
> 0.51340400 970691026
>
> 0.99698000 970691033
>
> 0.83268900 970691038
>
>
> Much slower than yours. Is your machine exceptionally fast, or is my
> client's exceptionally slow?
Well, I ran mine on a Sun clone running Solaris 7. I think the CPU is a
300Mhz chip, but I'm not completely sure. It's very lightly loaded because
it's a dev box. I don't know if you were running on a live server, shared
server or what, but I'd say that's pretty slow. That's the kind of
performance I get out of my old Pentium 100 at home.
Note, this kind of performance could be OK if you're doing 10 orders a day.
If you do 100 orders a day...it's probably too slow.
Also, let me throw in a good argument to give clients on this issue. You
know that if you spend so much money on hardware, you're sure to get a
performance increase. You might have to figure out which part to upgrade
(memory, disk, CPU), but you will definitely increase performance and
there's a fixed cost. On the other hand, the client can hire you to try to
optimize everything at an open-ended cost with no guarantee of performance
enhancement.
Leon
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