From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: david_list@boreham.org
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Large (8M) cache vs. dual-core CPUs
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:00:08 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <444E7F47.3010003@boreham.org>
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David Boreham wrote:
>
>> Actually, that was from an article from this last month that compared
>> the dual core intel to the amd. for every dollar spent on the intel,
>> you got about half the performance of the amd. Not bigotry. fact.
>>
>> But don't believe me or the other people who've seen the difference. Go
>> buy the Intel box. No skin off my back.
>>
> I've been doing plenty of performance evaluation on a parallel application
> we're developing here : on Dual Core Opterons, P4, P4D. I can say that
> the Opterons open up a can of wupass on the Intel processors. Almost 2x
> the performance on our application vs. what the SpecCPU numbers would
> suggest.
Because Stone Cold Said So!
>
>
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