On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 03:31 PM, Brigham Mecham wrote: > Hello > > Perhaps someone can fill me in on this one. I am comparing the run > time of a perl program I wrote. Using my Mac G4 which has a 1.5 ghz > processor and a 1.3 ghz PC computer (processor chip type I don't know > but could find out) I am seeing that the Mac takes 14 seconds to > complete what the PC does in 6! What's up with that? > >
There are so many things wrong with this question that I would normally not respond to it but I think buried under the mess you wrote is a legit question. Since 1.25 Ghz is as fast as Macs are currently going I wonder if you are on 25 Mhz machine. What does the script do? Memory? HD? What else is running when you are doing this? Many questions to answer.... > > -- Lou Moran http://ellem.dyn.dhs.org:5281/resume/lmoran2002.html >
