Stefan Hortschitz wrote: > My hardware: sun-ultrasparc 1,2ghz dual with 8gb ram
> If i run a simple php-script which builds an array of arrays i need ~3.3 > sec to execute [...] > to compare the speed: my notebook (p4 2.1 ghz/512mb ram/RedHat Linux 2.4 > executes the code in 1.7 seconds Umm, yes - your P4 has almost double the speed of the Sparc, so it's about twice as fast (the second CPU on your Sparc doesn't help anything here). I don't see any problem here. Regards... Michael