Best processor (i386) for Python performance?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 26 02:09:40 EDT 2004


> Raw clock speed?
> Cache size?
> Bus speed?
> Intel's Hyperthreading?
> AMD's 64 bits?

Python applications are often memory intensive, so a fast bus
and a large cache should help. Also, raw clock speed should help.
Hyperthreading and AMD64 are irrelevant (although for the latter,
it would be interesting to see how linux-x86 compares to
linux-amd64 on the same machine for Python performance).

Regards,
Martin



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