While matthew is working on a better version of the xml/xslt benchmark, I tried to run the same tests that memory-stalled the T2000, this time on a an older Sun V440. One with only two CPU’s, UltraSPARCH IIIi, at 1 GHz each.

This older machine, with only 1 Mb level 2 cache, is not memory stalled with the same tests. Yet, it appears to be slower with these transformations. If you buy a new V440, it has 1.5 GHz CPU’s, so it will be faster than the older machine I’m trying this on. List price is about the same for such a V440 and my T2000.

I wonder what the T2000 will do with the revised tests, when it’s no longer stalling…