From: Guido Neitzer <guido.neitzer@gmail.com>
To: mark@mark.mielke.cc <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Cc: Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing@tweakers.net>
Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc: Pgsql-Performance ((((E-mail)))) <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Opteron vs. Xeon "benchmark"
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:00:31 +0200
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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@mark.mielke.cc <mark@mark.mielke.cc> 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
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