lør, 05.02.2005 kl. 00.34 skrev Eric S. Raymond: > Gene C. <czar@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Yes, I have an Opteron system also and have been impressed with its relative > > performance (even with my Opteron 140). > > Indeed. I have a single Opteron 3400 that is cranking a measured 1.65 > times better performance than my previous machine on doclifter, my > monster Python app -- which doesn't sound impressive until you > consider that the previous machine was a 2-processor SMP with 1.8GHz > Athlons. So my real-world throughput is as good or (allowing for > Amdahl's Law inefficiencies) better than what I'd get from a 6 GHz > Athlon, if such a thing existed. > Depends on how well threaded the app is... A single-threaded app can't use more than one CPU :)
