Perl Benchmark: no chance for Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon

[Roland Mösl]

I developt since 1997 a web design software completly
written in Perl.

On the Windows part, I user Perl built 522 from Active State

Now I made some Benchmarks with a big site.
The software creates around 600 web pages out of a database
during the benchmark.

The results had been very surprising:


Notebook Acer Travelmate 663 LMI 512 MB RAM
1.6 GHz Pentium-M...............................4:35
Notebook Acer Travelmate 802 LMI 512 MB RAM
1.5 GHz Pentium-M...............................4:54
Notebook Acer Travelmate 663 LMI 512 MB RAM
1.3 GHz Pentium-M...............................5:25
Desktop 512 MB RAM
Ahtlon +2500........................................7:06
Notebook Acer Travelmate 634 LCI 512 MB RAM
1.8 GHz mobile Pentium 4M..................7:14
Desktop 512 MB RAM
Athlon +2000........................................7:30
Notebook Gericom Hummer Advanced 512 MB RAM
Athlon +2500........................................8:11
Notebook 512 MB RAM
Athlon +1500.......................................12:40
Notebook Gericom Silver Seraph 256 MB RAM
mobile Celeron 500..............................33:11

Surprise 1: 1.6 GHz Centrino nearly 7 times faster than
500 MHz Celeron
Surprise 2: Ahtlon extrem slow
Surprise 3: The test seems to indicate, that a 1.7 GHz Centrino
is faster than (not tested until now) a 3.06 GHz P4

Has somebody an explanation why this Perl based benchmark
shows so big advantage for the new Pentium-M