Re: databases and cpu speed
- Posted by leviathan at uswest.net
Mar 04, 2001
> greetings again,
>
> Has anyone run a database engine on one puter, and transfered it over to a
> faster
> puter, and found a noticeable difference in access times?
The example I have for this is the deal I'm working on,
Napster:Parse, file access to a 1360-record database is snappy on
either the Celeron 466 (abit), or the Pentium 266 (mtech). However,
access to a window has a considerable difference, like where I have
to add this 1360-file list to a LV, the mtech is very much slower at it
than the abit is. Amazing, really.
> Has the speed increase
> been due to faster cpu or faster harddrives? Do you have benchmark times? And
> most
> importantly, was the database written in Eu (compiled or interpretted?), and
> was it
> doing any string manipulation like searching or find()s in the data before
> returning it?
Yeah, sure, both the mtech and abit are anywhere from two or three
generations apart in all their components, so yeah, things have a
difference.
However, I don't bother to make a benchmark for any of this, I'm just
writing a program to work across win9x systems... I don't particularly
care about the target system (except if it works on these Win9x
boxen, it should work anywhere)
>
> My fastest puters are 266Mhz and 300Mhz, but there are now surplus 600Mhz
> puters
> on sale for $300......
>
Snatch them thangs up, Kat! Time for a cluster for Tiggr, with that
price! :)
--"LEVIATHAN"
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