On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: > Hi Silvan, > > On 30 November 2016 at 10:51, Silvan Jegen <s.je...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: >>> Ha, this isn't Skylake laptop vs. Broadwell laptop, this is my 14-core >>> Xeon vs. your Broadwell laptop! That they're so different suggests >>> that our configuration is pretty wildly different - are you perhaps >>> not building a load of stuff which configure autodetects? That's the >>> only way I can imagine how your laptop would outpace a £4000 >>> workstation. :\ >> >> I wonder how much of the difference is due to the speed of the >> NVME/PCI-E SSD Emil is using. >> >> In my limited experience, the Xeons on my server did not perform as >> well as the (higher tacted) i5 CPU on my desktop for some simple XML >> processing task (provided the degree of parallelism is the same of >> course). > > Apparently I need more coffee, because I was reading the wrong table, > and this is about Wayland rather than Weston builds. Oops. Either way, > the Xeon also has a NVME/PCI-E SSD, which seems pretty zippy; it also > has 128GB of RAM, so it shouldn't be touching the SSD anyway.
Ah, I must have missed that in your description. I thought your Xeon would use a regular SSD and that you are only measuring the first run (cold page cache). Benchmarks are always tricky. Cheers, Silvan _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
