G5 perfomance on YDL4.0

[Andrew]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 23:10, K Hanai wrote:

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> When I test the 2.5 GHz dual G5 machine (RAM 2 GB) for a perl 
> script or an image analysis program written by me in C compiled 
> on YDL 4.0, the performance is worth than a dual Xeon (2.8 GHz, 
> RAM 2 GB) machine (RedHat 9.0). When 6000 tiff images were treated, 
> the dual G5 machine took 42 min, on the other hand, the dual 
> Xeon machine completed the job in 36 min. Another dual G5 
> (2 GHz, RAM 2.5 GB) took 52 min for the same job.
> 
> How do you think?

Does giving the task a higher priority via 'nice' would help shrinking
these numbers (time)?