Leon,
When I ran you speed test script the differences in the run times differed
from .02's to .9's is this to be expected or do I have a config problem on
the server?
Kind Regards
Paul Ashton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeTrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:29 AM
Subject: RE: [FreeTrade] Question about parsing PHP code lines.
> > 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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