"Sun today announced new benchmark results involving the performance of the open source MySQL database running online transaction processing workload on 8-way Sun Fire V40z servers. The testing, which measured the performance of both read/write and read-only operations, showed that MySQL 5.0.18 running on Solaris 10 executed the same functions up to 64 percent faster in read/write mode and up to 91 percent faster in read-only mode than when it ran on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Server Edition OS." Take a look at the item below, though.
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Member since:2005-10-02
Benchmarking its self is an interesting yet rigorous *scientific* approach.
Yes, and there is a correct way to do things and an incorrect way to do things.
Pride and other emotional attributes will lead to doing benchmark the "scientific" way, while the lack of these will lead to b0rked benchmarks.
There is in science something called "Good Laboratory Practices". Marketing Departments have a poor understanding of "Good Laboratory Practices".
Member since:2006-05-25
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Pride and other emotional attributes will lead to doing benchmark the "scientific" way, while the lack of these will lead to b0rked benchmarks. "
Bzzt... Wrong!
You need to understand what the Scientific Method is:
"Among other facets shared by the various fields of inquiry is the conviction that the process must be objective so that the scientist does not bias the interpretation of the results or change the results outright."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
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2006-05-25
Pride and other emotional attributes have no value either in benchmarking. Benchmarking its self is an interesting yet rigorous *scientific* approach.