[X4U] OT - Unscientific Speed Test - PC-Mac-FileMaker

[Me]

It has already been established that the windows version of filemaker 
is much faster than the mac version.  Version 7 did not remedy this 
situation.


On Jul 14, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Edward Hillenbrand wrote:

> On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:24 PM, revDAVE wrote:
>
>> looping  400 records in filemaker 6
>>
>> Centrino 1.7 = 20 sec
>> Pentium 4 3.2 = 25 sec (RUFF)
>> dual 1.25 mac = 35 sec
>>
>> Then, to pursue the matter a bit more, I wrote a simple counting loop 
>> ( that
>> does not use the screen at all - just the processor...)
>>
>> loop 1 to 20000 in filemaker 6...
>>
>> centrino 1.7 = 10 sec
>> pentium 4 3.2 = 12 sec
>> dual 1.25 mac = 19 sec
>>
>> I'm shocked ... Are you? Why is the Centrino Faster than the Pentium? 
>> I had
>> no idea that both PC's were so much faster than My Mac Dual 1.25 g4!
>
> Interesting comparison.  I wouldn't concluded that the PCs are faster 
> based on this.  You have perhaps shown that the Windows version of 
> FileMaker is faster than the Mac version, but I wouldn't even say that 
> without a little extra data.  Could you reply with how much of the CPU 
> FileMaker was using on each computer during each test?
>
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