Could it be that your Xeon and C2D have different performance characteristics? Maybe your Xeon computer has a higher FSB and greater memory bandwidth, or perhaps it has a bigger L2 and L3 cache? Nice test ;)
~Robert > > Maybe the cpu-bound process makes the pkgsrc build go faster, because of > > scheduling and cache locality? :) > > > > anyways, interesting numbers! > > > > cheers > > simon > > >
