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Rundy,
This was actually the question in my original post. Intel's web site may
have some performance comparisons bewtween P3 and P4...I suspect that for
optimizations, the XEON may be faster--though keep in mind the XEON is
available in L2 cache sizes from 256k to 2 MB...the 2 MB version is
probably obscenely expensiove, though may be worth it as a tradeing
station for optimizations. The whoile point here well be to keep the
entire symbol's data set in that L2 cache--that way the optimizations
fly...Once the system has to go beyond the L2 cache to fetch the symbol's
data, performance suffers (in other words, that P-4 1.7 GHz chip would
spend much of its time waiting for data to crunch).
Rundy Bradley wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> For doing very lengthy optimizations, which computer would be faster?
> a workstation with a Pentium4, 1.7Ghz processor, or
> a workstation with a Pentium3 Xeon 1.0 Ghz processor?
>
> Rundy
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