Speed v Version

[Alexander Clouter]

Dominic Thoreau <dominic at thoreau-online.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My former employer did some benchmarking of different versions of Perl, used inside mod_perl.  Perl 5.10.x proved faster than 5.8.x, and 64 bit was faster than 32.  This was for a CPU bound application though, which it sounds like your's is not.
>>>
>>> This was x86 vs x86_64? As I understand it, even though it can be on the same
>>> chip, the latter CPU architecture has far more general purpose registers,
>>> which permits compilers to generate better code...
>>>
>>
>> Also note on my perfectly 64 bit macbook pro:
>>
>> $ uname -p
>> i386
> 
> Physical machines? Pah!
> 
> dominic at dominic-virtual-laptop:~$ uname -p
> unknown
> 
> Virtualisation FTW!
> 
Pah, x86 filth!  Here many our production (RADIUS/DNS/etc) boxen are...
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ac56 at domokun:~$ uname -a
Linux domokun 2.6.32-5-kirkwood #1 Wed Jan 12 15:27:07 UTC 2011 armv5tel GNU/Linux
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Run's Perl just fine that box[1]...

Cheers

[1] OpenRD Ultimate @ ~11W power usage, for those who are curious

-- 
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: The speed of anything depends on the flow of everything.