[GENERAL] Pentium4/Xeon versus AMD

2005-04-22 Thread P. Joshua Rovero
Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just got done comparing SPECMarks (on spec.org) between Sun's AMD entry level servers versus similarly configured UltraSPARCs versus desktop AMD based machines. Sun's AMD machines are twice as fast as their UItraSPARCs, for approximately the same pri

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and .NET

2005-04-03 Thread P. Joshua Rovero
Marc G. Fournier wrote: From the Mono web site: "Mono can run existing programs targeting the .NET or Java frameworks." does this mean that something written for Java (or .Net) could be compiled without mods? Mono would give someone inclined to code that a fairly easy inroad into several operat

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4b1 vs 7.3.4 performance

2003-08-28 Thread P. Joshua Rovero
Tom Lane wrote: "P.J. \"Josh\" Rovero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ran sets of 150 pgbench runs, with clients (1, 2, 4, 8, 16) and transactions (5 each at 125, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000), BTW, what was the pgbench "scale factor"? regards, tom lane 1 for these cases.