I have this puny lill’ Toshiba laptop salvaged from my last employer, running Debian, and while it serves its purposes, it’s kinda not fast. I have a web account at OVH, and there my Erlang experiments always felt quite snappier… DUH!

dda@/home/dda > cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 332.155
cache size      : 256 KB
[...]
bogomips        : 653.72

ovh@ssh1:/dda$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3058.017
cache size      : 512 KB
[...]
bogomips        : 6107.95

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3058.017
cache size      : 512 KB
[...]
bogomips        : 6107.95

ovh@ssh1:/dda$ 

Holy Eniac! Nominally ten times faster, and prolly more. And while I am sharing this baby with others, it sure feels fast enough when I run code there…

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