Archives
2010 June
– Valve
– Win
2010 May2010 February
2010 January
2009 October
2009 September
2009 April
2009 February
2009 January
2008 July
2008 May
2008 April
2008 March
Welcome back.
» forget me
Subscribe:
Login:
| Re: An Interesting Processor Comparison |
| Sat October 10th, 2009 at 2:33 AM PDT |
|
Aha. Figured out why the AthlonXP beats the pants off the Core Duo. Too many processes. The Core Duo seems to be much slower at creating new processes, which my test method did a lot of. Also, with the fact that so many short-lived processes are flying around, and therefore being shuttled back and forth between the two cores, these cores' caches probably aren't being used very well, causing even more slowdown. In the end, I rewrote my processing shell scripts as one program (a PHP script :P), and the processing time on the Core Duo went from 20 minutes down to a few seconds. Clearly, the new-process overhead is significant. The other machines saw similar improvements, to the point where I can't really tell which machine is fastest, because the script runs so fast. |
| » (make a comment) |
Comments:
no comments to show
| Shoutbox |
|
Anonymous:
lonely shoutbox :( Mon April 7th, 2008 at 5:09 PM PDT |
|
Anonymous:
hello Mon April 7th, 2008 at 5:12 PM PDT |
|
Anonymous:
o hai Mon April 28th, 2008 at 12:31 PM PDT |
|
CHIZUBAGA:
I CAN HAZ CHIZUBAGA!!!!!!! Wed January 20th, 2010 at 12:58 PM PST |
|
Not Jeremy:
o hai remember when i threw hot sauz in yer eye. lulz Thu January 28th, 2010 at 11:28 AM PST |
|
JEREMY:
MOAR NAPKINS DURR HURR Thu February 11th, 2010 at 9:33 AM PST |
|
Shoutbox:
I wuz on a DAtZ.. haffing chizubaga!! Om nom nom nom!! Wed May 26th, 2010 at 1:04 PM PDT |
|
Totally not anyone you know:
Problem? Thu June 3rd, 2010 at 2:09 PM PDT |
|
Random Randomstein:
Shitpickle. Fri June 11th, 2010 at 6:04 PM PDT |
