Re: What affects performance?

From: Jack Parker <jparker_at_boi.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 13:40:35 GMT
Message-ID: <Cqq0no.9x9_at_boi.hp.com>

Dave Findley Quothe, (but left out all the other groups).
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> Jack Parker (jparker_at_hpbs3645.boi.hp.com) wrote:
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> >Paul Brown (pbrown_at_triplerock.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
> >>: Bill Miller (turboman_at_teal.csn.org) wrote:
> >>: These are *really* asnine question.
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> >There is no such thing as an asinine question. Just asinine responses.
 

> >That is, I think you should have let him down a little more gently. :-)
> >>: I think I'll invoke --'s Laws;
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> Jack, and All:
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> I agree 100%. This sort sort of information can be useful. It should be
> pulled together and put into the Informix FAQ. Or, better yet, added to the
> overall "comp.databases" FAQ, as it does go across different RDMS systems.
>

What say Paul, do you want to write up --'s Laws?

But more seriously, Paul and the other posters made some very valid points. What the original requestor was asking for was a white paper on performance, or rather the basis to write one. Such a paper would be not terribly useful unless you were working on your thesis. Tuning a system for performance is an art form and varies with what your system is required to do. Purchasing a system based on such notes would be equally silly. For example: What's faster a Maserati or a schoolbus? But are you trying to win the Indy 500 or move people from point a to point b? Sure the Maserati can get there 3 times faster but it can only carry two people.

I am now supposed to read a white paper which states this? Sure it's possible to document in general what makes a system fast. But how high is the sky?

I'm not saying that such a paper is impossible, nor that I would not be interested in reading it. Just that it would be like graduating somebody with a CS degree who knew all about code, but didn't know what a file was. I mean - how else is (s)he going to get out of jail free?

cheers
j.

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