> > Perhaps our different time ratios can be accounted for by > > examining memory bus speed? > > > > RAM: 997 MHz, 2.00 GB, Physcal Address Extension
Dan Bron wrote: > I have two 1 GB/266 Mhz DIMMs, and two 0.25 GB/200 MHz DIMMs > (these were left over from the old computer; why waste 'em?). > > I don't know enough about hardware to infer anything from this. It looks to me like your memory bus is about a quarter (sometimes less) the speed of mine. Also, you've got a 2.5GHz cpu where I'm using a 2.0GHz cpu. Looking at CPU/Memory speed ratios, the machine you're using has something like a 5:1 bias in favor of the CPU when compared to my machine. (CPU clock frequency isn't really the same kind of units as memory bandwidth, but assuming that bus width is the same in both cases, the units cancel out when contrasting the ratios for the two machines.) Put differently, space/time tradeoffs can have a significantly different payoff on your machine than on mine. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
