Hello Roger > I have noticed on simple tests making arrays with tmpfs that Intel > cpus seem to be able to xor about 2x the speed of AMD. The speed may > also vary based on cpu generation. I forgot to mention I did some tests here with -O2 optimized C code and 1 core of the CPU can XOR aproximately 7.11GB of data per second, so ... not really a bottleneck here. Regards, Jaromir