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On May 23, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> actually benchmarked this on the package build machines, and found
> that 5.4 outperforms 4.11 by at least 10% when performing identical
> workloads on identical UP hardware :-)
>

I have a pair of twin dual opteron boxes built about 1 month apart.   
One is about 5% faster than the other running 5.4-RELEASE-p1.  No  
idea why.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806