I did a speed test with the actual alpha build of USM2 today. It was quite impressive, with my PC configuration of Sempron 3100+, 1,5Gb RAM (video card is ininfluent for this):

• a database of 250k players, fixtures for 7 leagues (no cups or international competitions yet) gets generated in less than 10 secs (the start new match option)
• the search player function, with the 250k player db above, takes about 1s to filter the results
• sorting the search results (which can even be the whole database of 250k players), clicking on the top of the columns takes only 3-4 s!
• when you click on proceed and go to next match (everything is automatically played now) takes only 1s for the 7 leagues above (average 18 teams each league)

Now need to add the player transfer market… 🙂