So what about other architectures? How about a 1.6GHz Atom 330 processor. This doesn't have out of order execution and should more closely match ARM and MIPS ty

So what about other architectures? How about a 1.6GHz Atom 330 processor. This doesn't have out of order execution and should more closely match ARM and MIPS type small machines. (Sorry, I can't get one of those booted from where I am now.) FOURCC 23.3ns FOURCC-without-alignment-bug 27.6ns NGINX 29.8ns STRCMP 70.5ns (glibc) The difference between FOURCC and NGINX is vanishing here. How about a 3GHz core-i7 840 FOURCC 4.8ns FOURCC-without-alignment-bug 5.6ns NGINX 8.3ns STRCMP 13.9ns (freebsd) Not a lot faster than a Core-2, but some. Of course it has twice the cores plus hyperthreading ready to go. How about if you are cheap (like me) and got a 2.93GHz core i3 for your server: FOURCC 5.3ns FOURCC-without-alignment-bug 5.8ns NGINX 9.9ns STRCMP 33.6ns (glibc) Not bad for the little guy. (Saved $100 on the cpu, plus didn't need to add a video card with some goofey driver, and its system wide low power state is almost as good at the Atom's.)