Lucene and T2000: don’t do it +

Maybe this is a good FAQ entry for Lucene:

Is it possible to run Lucene on an older Sun Fire T2000?

Yes, but don’t call it run.

Some statistics (using Compass + Lucene)

Index creation (5000 objects): 14502ms

Initial search (“*”): 9544ms

Compare this to a 2.2 Ghz MacBookPro:

Index creation (5000 objects): 1071ms

Initial search (“*”): 614ms

Obviously (ok, it wasn’t for me) the single FPU is the bottle neck.