On 09/24/13 21:24, compdoc wrote:
>> The question that has to be asked, though, is "under what test
> conditions".  
> 
> Well, I have to assume the tests mean on the same hardware. Which implies
> changes in code.

The problem is that doesn't mean a lot of the test is on hardware on
which the older version has already fallen on its face because it scan't
scale to that many cores.

>> MySQL 5.6 is actually slower, core for core and RAM for RAM, than 5.1 on
> older hardware with the same data.
> 
> I appreciate legacy hardware, but I'm a small business with newer x86_64
> hardware as are all of my customers who use mysql, so not really a concern.

Oh, sure, and we try to keep all of our customers as up to date as we
can.  My point is simply that sometimes I think Oracle's glowing
announcements of the performance gains in the latest version seem
improbable without a much better stipulation of what is being compared
to what.


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