I'm kind of curious if anyone knows what version of OS X Server (or client) Anand used in the Mac SQL performance....
Also if there's ever a followup article to that, I'd love to see the PPC platforms performance on OS X Universal server (compiled on GCC4) compared to the defacto 10.4.7 server (compiled on gcc3.3). Personally, having run OS X Servers on PPC hardware I'm wondering what sort of performance gain I would get running on Intel based hardware. I saw a enormous performance gain reloading my servers from the 10.4.7 Universal server medium... I suppose the G5 optimization probably has something to do with that. Apple made several other code changes I believe one of the main ones being the AFP server.
Also if there's ever a followup article to that, I'd love to see the PPC platforms performance on OS X Universal server (compiled on GCC4) compared to the defacto 10.4.7 server (compiled on gcc3.3). Personally, having run OS X Servers on PPC hardware I'm wondering what sort of performance gain I would get running on Intel based hardware. I saw a enormous performance gain reloading my servers from the 10.4.7 Universal server medium... I suppose the G5 optimization probably has something to do with that. Apple made several other code changes I believe one of the main ones being the AFP server.