HEADS UP - master/slave ports

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Thu Jun 17 21:07:42 GMT 2004


Cyrille Lefevre wrote:

>> These appear to be slightly faster than the previous stats I posted.
>> Everything is pratically identical in user time.  sys is where the
>> savings are being made.
>
> it's strange that this code (w/ no fork) is not much faster than 2 
> forks !

The benchmark is not really valid. Depending on your machine,
nearly everything will be in the cache. This is not true when
you have other stuff in the loop, like building the INDEX.

-Oliver



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