April 26, 2006

Macbook benchmarking

The thread that won't die - benchmarking the Macbooks. I've now got 2gb in this machine, so it was time to re-run the tests.

With Cocoon 2.1.8 on my machine:
rm -rf build; ./build.sh webapp
[...]
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 minute 11 seconds

On Maurizio's Macbook Pro, identical spec to mine:
Total time: 1 minute 21 seconds

On Gabriele's new Sony Vaio running Ubuntu:
Total time: 1 minute 30 seconds

Gianugo got hold of a 1.83GHz Macbook:
Total time: 1 minute 16 seconds

On Jeroen's Dell centrino laptop running Windows and Cocoon 2.1.9 (and no virus checker):
Total time: 1 minute 41 seconds

On Jeroen's Dell desktop running Windows and Cocoon 2.1.9 (and a virus checker):
Total time: 9 minutes 40 seconds

With Cocoon 2.1.9 on my machine:
Total time: 1 minute 23 seconds

So ... I still have a hot, vibrating, buggy laptop. But it's fast.

Posted by savs at April 26, 2006 1:49 PM
Comments

yes...of course....indeed...NO like it...
I guess that probably our dear Mr. Savory forgot to mention one little thing:

we did the same benchmark at 9 o'clock, just after turning on our machines, and his wonderful, amazing, outstanding, but above all really cheap, macBook performed:

--LISTEN LISTEN--
1'39''
--LISTEN LISTEN--

Maybe it was not yet really woke up, or maybe later I just started working hard, apparently differently from our proud macbook owner :-)
Anyway I really have to say that macbook is a really useful development tool: can you imagine how warm will you feel next winter ? And how many good, good, good vibrations?

Cheers,
g
:-)))))

Posted by: mindTheGab at April 26, 2006 4:43 PM

Just ran a 2.1.9 build on my machine (more or less the same spec, less the RAM), and it took 1:09.

No trackback support, andrew? (link below hits my post)

Posted by: Paul Russell at April 26, 2006 9:51 PM

Hey, I'm the fastest one! 1.07 compiling Cocoon 2.1.9 with the latest Java5. My spec: MacBook Pro 2GHz, 2GB RAM and 7200RPM disk. Having a 7200 disk instead of a stock 5400 one might explain it.

Posted by: Ugo Cei at April 26, 2006 10:15 PM

maybe you should try varying the temprature of the machine and see if the results change.

Posted by: Ian Holsman at April 27, 2006 4:39 AM

Ugo: I have the 7200 disk, so does Maurizio and Paul. We're using Java 1.4.2 for these tests ... I get in the region of 1 minute 10 seconds on 1.5.

Paul: I turned off trackback - too much spam.

Ian: I'm going to put the laptop in the freezer now ;-)

Posted by: Andrew Savory at April 27, 2006 8:17 AM

Time to upgrade movabletype, maybe? Latest version uses central blacklists and heuristics etc, which is trapping the vast majority of spam posted to mine....

Seems a shame to allow the spammers to cripple trackback..

Posted by: Paul Russell at April 28, 2006 8:20 AM