I find the benchmark much more interesting in comparing PostgreSQL to MySQL than Intel to AMD. It might be as biased as other "benchmarks" but it shows clearly something that a lot of PostgreSQL user always thought: MySQL gives up on concurrency ... it just doesn't scale well. cug On 9/23/06, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yep. From what I understand, Intel is 8 to 10 times the size of AMD. It's somewhat amazing that AMD even competes, and excellent for us, the consumer, that they compete well, ensuring that we get very fast computers, for amazingly low prices. But Intel isn't crashing down any time soon. Perhaps they became a little lazy, and made a few mistakes. AMD is forcing them to clean up. May the competition continue... :-) Cheers, mark
-- PostgreSQL Bootcamp, Big Nerd Ranch Europe, Nov 2006 http://www.bignerdranch.com/news/2006-08-21.shtml
