Some comments about Unis vs. NT…
I made some comments along these lines in another topic somewhere. Maybe an ambitious moderator will look for it a post a link. 
Link Here - Nick 9/13/2002
Anyway, the reason (I believe) that Unix gets better benchmark scores than NT is that they have a true “background” process for processing REP documents. In the NT environment, we have a major liability in that the “background” busobj.exe is essentially the same as the foreground process that users use. In other words, this background process has all of the overhead of error checking, an interface, and all the baggage that a regular windows app has. Under Unix, the “bolight” service was written from the beginning as a background process. One would hope 
that it was written to be efficient at its designed task, and that none of the extra “baggage” like an interface was included.
That is my primary explanation as to why Unix numbers are always quoted higher than NT. I am really REALLY hoping for a true background process for the next major release under NT. There’s no reason (other than it was convenient) to continue to use busobj.exe to process REP files under NT. My two cents.
I agree with Nick; this has been a fascinating discussion. And - if you don’t mind the Bob plug - much easier to keep track of when contained in a single topic than scattered across multiple emails.
Dave
Dave Rathbun 
(BOB member since 2002-06-06)