[wellylug] distro performance

[Brent Wood]

--- Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:32:48PM -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> > I've mentioned before how running this under Linux is much faster than
> Windows.
> > Possibly a fuction of mingw/gcc efficiency, but as pragmatists, we'll go
> with
> > Linux, why is not really an issue. We just want it to run fast.
> 
> An interesting result, basically observing that AMD64 and SLED10 may be
> a very good combination for speed ;-)

For one computationally intensive application!

> But it strikes me you've described a lot of effort gone into testing
> different machines/kernels/compilers, without putting an equivalent
> amount of effort into profiling the code itself to eliminate
> bottlenecks.

That has been done over the last few years, as it has been tweaked .... mostly
memory management. As a benchmark, the code efficiency is not terribly
relevant, but to maximise overall performance I agree, it is critical.

Cheers....