Okay - Now I think we are getting off topic, but... > > Ah ... you're on a Mac ... Intel or PPC? If Intel, you might want to > look into their VTune tool (I think it runs on MacOS). Even if you > don't > have the latest whiz-bang multi-core Intel chip, VTune will tell you > stuff you probably never knew you should care about. >
I'll check that out. > (I'm an Intel-free zone, and so I use AMD's CodeAnalyst.) :) > > Database, eh? Maybe you should be recompiling the database from source > too. PostgreSQL? MySQL? There are *lots* of tweaking gizmos for them, > plus a benchmark called "MySQL Super Smack". I've heard of it. Any to recommend? As an aside: how correlated do you think performance of specs is to real performance of a production rails app? I'm asking this as knowing almost nothing about mysql (I learned about the query_cache just the other day) - as a developer who just wants my app to run (it crashes at least once a day). Scott _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
