RE: Processor speed

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nathanma@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Actually it was ported from Unix.
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Point taken, although Lotus Notes originated on Intel.  Still, my thinking
is that ported applications often suffer a performance disadvantage.

For example, many ported applications rely heavily on sockets for
interprocess communication.  But data queue send and receive functions are
twice as fast as socket send and receive.  Ported applications often rely on
their own database.  But DB/400 has the advantage of being optimized at a
much lower level.  Ported applications often rely heavily on SQL.  But
direct record level access is often more efficient.

There are probably many such examples.  So, my thinking is that a faster
processor will only do so much.  The real problem is that the ported
application was not built to take advantage of native performance features
and techniques.



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