I use python in almost the same environment. I use it on Joyent and on the Rackspace cloud. Joyent is faster for a few reasons (cpu bursting and faster disks) but these aren't real benchmarks until they are on the same machines.
James On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se<grahn%2bn...@snipabacken.se> > wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > inaf <cem.ezberci <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> 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.. > > > > You have to compare not only CPU frequencies but the CPU models. > > Yes, at least that. Megahertz figures have been useless for decades, > except in advertising. > > > Recently Sun has been selling CPUs optimized for multi-threading (e.g. > the > > "UltraSPARC T2" or Niagara CPUs) which have, by design, very poor > > single-threaded performance. If your Solaris zone uses such a CPU then a > 6-8x > > difference in single-threaded performance compared to a modern Intel > > or AMD CPU > > is totally expected. > > (Had to Google it. A "Solaris Zone" is apparently some kind of > virtualization thing, with low CPU overhead.) > > s/multi-threading/multi-programming/ I suppose. I certainly hope you > can still get performance while running many separate true processes in > parallel. > > /Jorgen > > -- > // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . > \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://www.goldwatches.com http://www.jewelerslounge.com
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