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

[Charles Schneider]

You said in an earlier post that you have a DP mac.  If I am running  
an app that uses both processors I get numbers closer to 190%.  Looks  
to me (very untrained eye) that FM is only using one cpu

Charlie


On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:51 AM, revDAVE wrote:

> On 7/14/05 5:26 PM, "Edward Hillenbrand" <contact at verticaleye.net>  
> wrote:
>
>
>> 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?
>>
>
>   I closed as many applications as possible, including things like  
> Quick
> keys, and I opened the activity monitor and ran same two tests.  
> Here are the
> results:
>
> Test 1: looping  400 records in filemaker 6 (Involving scrolling  
> and screen
> redraws/refresh etc.)
>
>  activity Monitor = 90.5% CPU
>
>
> Test 2: loop 1 to 20000 in filemaker 6...
>
>  activity Monitor = 96.5% CPU
>
>
>  can someone please explain the relevance of these numbers to me -  
> cause I'm
> not sure what they mean?
>
>
> --
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