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Re: databases and cpu speed

• Posted by leviathan at uswest.net Mar 04, 2001
• 477 views

> 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"