Runtime Performance Reports
These are reports of runtimes for real life scans:
2015-09-03 by @rrjohnston
On Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 Python 2.7.3 and ScanCode Version 1.3.1
Specs: 40 threads (2 processors, 10 cores each, with hyperthreading) 3.1 GHz 128GB RAM 8TB controller RAID5
scanned 195676 files in about 16.7 hours or about 3.25 file per second (using defaults licenses and copyrights)
notes: this version of ScanCode runs on a single thread so it does not make good use of extra processing power.