Performance

Earlier, I had mentioned that it appeared that the individual threads on the Chromebook seemed to be faster than the threads on the 8-core server running at a clock speed over 50% higher. I’ve done the deeper look I suggested then, and I have found something interesting: For the program I used (my Go playing program, michi-go), reducing the number of threads results in each thread doing more work. Michi-go is written in the Go language.

I’ve been quite impressed with the performance of the Chromebook that has become my primary portable system. It is an Acer Chromebook 11 C740. The CPU is a dual-core Celeron 3205U running at a nominal 1.5 GHz. It has 4 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD drive. I’m running this system in Developer mode which gives shell access. I’ve created a chroot that is running a current version of Ubuntu.