On Oct 11, 6:59 am, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > inaf <cem.ezberci <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > My code seem to > > return lookups from a in memory data structure I build combining bunch > > of dictionaries and lists 6-8 times faster on a 32 bit Linux box than > > on a Solaris zone. > > Well, if your workload is CPU-bound, the issue here is not really Solaris vs. > Linux but rather CPU power. You should try to run a generic (non-Python) CPU > benchmark (*) on both systems, perhaps this 6-8 factor is expected. If only > Python shows such a performance difference, on the other hand, perhaps you can > give us more precisions on those systems. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > (*) for example one of the C programs > onhttp://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/c.php
Good point. I failed to compare the CPU power on these machines.. 32 bit linux box I have is 2666 Mhz vs the Solaris zone is 1415 Mhz.. I guess that explains :) Thank you for the tip.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
