[domovina:2005] - Fwd: Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP by Marko Stanković <stankovic.marko@gmail.com>

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Subject: Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:55:00 +0100

Mortimer.CA writes "In a weblog entry, Paul Murphy mentions a Microsoft report (40
page PDF) that in many instances FreeBSD 5.3 and Linux perform better than
Windows XP SP2. The report is about MS' Singularity kernel (which does perform
better than the OSS kernels by many of the metrics they use), and some future
directions in OS design (as well as examination of the way things have been done
in the past)." From the post: "What's noteworthy about it is that Microsoft
compared Singularity to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP - and almost
every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants. For example, 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."

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