[SGVLUG] Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP

[Robert]

Greets,

I definately enjoyed reading that PDF. What supprised me about the
article, is to see that, according to their own PDF, a previous "windows"
seemed to be faster than all the other results (!?).

I also find it amusing to see that, as M$ evolves, they are basically
recreating a *nix-like systems....

Me

>>From Slashdot:
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/1825244&tid=109&tid=106
>
> We talked about how linux process creation and context switches are
> much fast then Windows,
> One example from Microsoft's report they show the number of CPU cycles
> needed to "create and start a process" as 1,032,000 for FreeBSD,
> 719,000 for Linux, and 5,376,000 for Windows/XP.
>
> So microsoft admits linux is 746% fast at creating a process then Windows.
>


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Robert Leyva
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