Speed comparison

[Robert Luciani]

Could it be that your Xeon and C2D have different performance characteristics?
Maybe your Xeon computer has a higher FSB and greater memory bandwidth,
or perhaps it has a bigger L2 and L3 cache?
Nice test ;)

~Robert > Maybe the cpu-bound process makes the pkgsrc build go faster, because of

> scheduling and cache locality? :)
>
> anyways, interesting numbers!
>
> cheers
>  simon
>