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| Thread ID: 86736 | 2008-01-27 04:35:00 | Linux Provides The Illusion Of Faster Speeds | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 634349 | 2008-01-27 09:29:00 | Gotcha. Well there are certainly benchmarks out there, but I wouldn't have the first clue where to look for them. But googling for specific things will bring up some numbers for you. An interesting one that's been prominent recently has been the new CFS CPU scheduler - have a look at the lkml archives for some numbers, I remember there were some fairly exhaustive benchmarks on there a few months ago. Another recent change in kernel 2.6.24 has been the memory fragmentation model - that should also yield some decent gains on systems with a long uptime, although I don't know if anyone has run any tests on exactly how much. Chill may have some numbers somewhere - as a long-time gentoo user he's more into the whole performance thing than I am, and probably cares enough about benchmarks to know where to find them. I usually take it on trust that if something is noted as "improves performance at task xx in area yy" by the devs who wrote it, then they probably know what they're talking about. |
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| 634350 | 2008-01-28 01:58:00 | A few months back I built two identical medium spec PC's (ordered all the parts x2) and installed Vista Ultimate 64bit on one and Mandriva Linux 2008.0 64bit on the other. The Linux machine uses KDE 3.5.7 and has the 3D Compiz-Fusion desktop installed and enabled. In real world terms there is no discernible speed difference between them. Applications launch at about the same speed, opening folders is about the same. Video/audio encoding is almost identical, but the you'd expect that since they have identical hardware. I like Linux as an alternative to Microsoft but I'm not a fan-boy for either OS in particular. Both have their advantages and disadvantages but my experience shows that, in my case at least, there is no real speed difference between them. Of course you could install a super lightweight Linux distro and window manager and then you probably would see a difference, but that wouldn't really be a fair comparison. KDE 3.5 with Compiz-Fusion has lots of bells and whistles just like Vista Aero (more in fact) so the two OS's are fairly similar in terms of bling. |
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