Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
My BBC sandbox is sane at least:
$ uname -p
x86_64
Shouldn't a BBC report 6502? ;-)
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On 1 June 2011 18:46, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
I contemplating providing encouragement to a customer to upgrade from
5.8.7 to something more modern. One of the overriding issues is speed. The
customer is fixated with speed.
Unfortunately one of the major things the customer's
On 3 Jun 2011, at 08:28, Toby Wintermute wrote:
1)
Are they running old Red Hat or CentOS versions?
I ask because the Perl shipped on those was, for quite a long time,
very, very broken due to a vendor patch that made bless() take 1000x
longer than it should. In that case, just using a
On 03/06/11 09:28, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 3 Jun 2011, at 08:28, Toby Wintermute wrote:
1)
Are they running old Red Hat or CentOS versions?
I ask because the Perl shipped on those was, for quite a long time,
very, very broken due to a vendor patch that made bless() take 1000x
longer than
On 3 Jun 2011, at 10:21, Dirk Koopman wrote:
Thank you all for your suggestions. I will see whether I can persuade them
to upgrade.
Which is almost certainly Not The Problem.
On 03/06/11 10:56, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 3 Jun 2011, at 10:21, Dirk Koopman wrote:
Thank you all for your suggestions. I will see whether I can persuade them to
upgrade.
Which is almost certainly Not The Problem.
I agree it is Not The Problem. But increased speed is a killer hook
On 01/06/2011 23:10, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
With added greengrocer's!
FTFY.
Andrew
I contemplating providing encouragement to a customer to upgrade from
5.8.7 to something more modern. One of the overriding issues is speed.
The customer is fixated with speed.
Unfortunately one of the major things the customer's clients do is
replicate their ISAM data into databases, usually
On 1 Jun 2011, at 09:46, Dirk Koopman wrote:
I contemplating providing encouragement to a customer to upgrade from 5.8.7
to something more modern. One of the overriding issues is speed. The
customer is fixated with speed.
Unfortunately one of the major things the customer's clients do is
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:12:48AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 1 Jun 2011, at 09:46, Dirk Koopman wrote:
I contemplating providing encouragement to a customer to upgrade from
5.8.7 to something more modern. One of the overriding issues is speed.
The customer is fixated with
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 1 Jun 2011, at 11:57, Dave Lambley 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
On 1 Jun 2011, at 14:13, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 1 Jun 2011, at 11:57, Dave Lambley wrote:
My former employer did some benchmarking of different versions of Perl,
used inside mod_perl. Perl 5.10.x proved faster than
On 1 June 2011 17:12, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 Jun 2011, at 14:13, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 1 Jun 2011, at 11:57, Dave Lambley wrote:
My former employer did some benchmarking of different versions of
On 1 Jun 2011, at 17:26, Dominic Thoreau wrote:
On 1 June 2011 17:12, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 Jun 2011, at 14:13, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 1 Jun 2011, at 11:57, Dave Lambley wrote:
My former
On 1 Jun 2011, at 14:13, Nicholas Clark wrote:
but then as Dave says, changing from x86 to x86_64 halves the amount of
(non-character, non floating point) stuff you can get in the same CPU's
caches, and in the same machine's RAM.
This kinda blew $client out of the water who have leaky code
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Also note on my perfectly 64 bit macbook pro:
$ uname -p
i386
On Mac OS X 10.6, the system boots to the 32-bit kernel by default.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4287
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3773
You may get a
On 1 Jun 2011, at 17:46, Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Also note on my perfectly 64 bit macbook pro:
$ uname -p
i386
On Mac OS X 10.6, the system boots to the 32-bit kernel by default.
Dominic Thoreau domi...@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
On 1 Jun 2011, at 21:29, Alexander Clouter wrote:
Run's Perl just fine that box[1]...
With added greengrocers!
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