I'd stake a beer or two on one area where your IBM big iron will walk all over your piddly desktop and that is in raw throughput.

Try setting up a dozen processes running in parallel, reading and writing files on the disk. For instance, each process writes a few million records to 20 files opened simultaneously. Then go back and read all files simulatenously (that is, one record from each open file before getting the next), and write those records out to another file. Then delete everything and start again. Do that about 10 times. See how long it takes from the first process launched until all are finished.

The idea is to saturate the IO channel on the machine. If my theory is right, your IBM machine will do much better at dealing with IO, and will finish miles ahead of your desktop.

• another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl

In reply to Re: System Performance by grinder
in thread System Performance by Massyn

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