[KLUG Members] Dual Core systems and Linux

[Rick]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 09:02 -0400, Andrew Eidson wrote:
> It is a proprietary software called SASIxp that is a school database for
> handling attendance, grades, et all..  So again it was a specific program
> but since that program is what my company specializes in that is why we did
> the switch.. Our programmers saw about 10 to 20% increase in compiling
> software speeds (with .NET) again we did the switch about 2 years ago when
> the 64's first came out.. so we have not had any of the newer Intel D's in
> so can't say about the latest set of processors if there is still a
> difference or not. 
Ok, 10-20% I can get, I just didn't see how it went from 2 hours to 2
minutes. 

Thanks for the clarification.