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SubjectRe: Performance Comparision
Alan Cox wrote:

> > resume it gives you the potential a system have. I suppose
> > that linux have a very well designed and basic memory
> > management but this is not true. Linux outperforms the others
>
> The Linux MM is very good at some things and not good at others. Its
> algorithms for selecting swap pages are definitely improveable. However
> it is lighter for many things than other OSs and that often more than makes
> up for it
>
> > Quips and FreeBSD in the same machine 13M net quips. FreeBSD
> > takes 2.5 hours to complete the test and linux in both kernels takes
> > 5 hours ( ?? :( ) The Windoze machine never complete the test
>
> Thats not a meaningful test btw. The glibc headers take longer to compile
> because of all the extensive standards features and optimisations.
>
> A valid compile test would be to build say the BSD ones with a BSD
> target compiler on BSD and Linux.
>
> Alan

Well, this are the facts with the same hardware different OS.


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