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Who Has Faster Pipes? Linux, Win2000, WinXP Compared

Posted by timothy on from the only-one-small-part-of-the-sum-remember dept.

SeaBait writes: "This revealing article about the High-performance programming techniques on Linux and Windows shows that Linux rules. The performance testing was on Pipes(interprocess communication mechanism available on both Windows and Linux and UNIX). Although I new Linux would fare the best, the poor performance of Windows XP was a surprise. Windows 2000 actually did better than XP!"

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  1. Pipes? Phbbt. by gosand · · Score: 5, Funny
    What good are pipes anyway? Unless there is a GUI attached to them, they are worthless, right?

    Ask your local MCSE, they'll tell you.

    ROFL.

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    1. Re:Pipes? Phbbt. by Hertog · · Score: 5, Funny

      Any good MCSE will tell you that the windows-logo screensaver is much nicer then the pipes-screensaver..

      Gr.

      Hertog

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  2. Loved the "Bug or Feature" part.. by cOdEgUru · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article..

    Another distinction might the the "feature" of Windows pipes where there is no fixed buffer size. For the first test we stopped at a 4K buffer size in deference to the Linux buffer. Windows advocates might suggest that the arbitrary buffer sizes associated with Windows named pipes are a benefit. To demonstrate the arbitrary size of the Windows named pipe buffers, we can simply run the single threaded program with arbitrarily large block sizes. I did a run with pipespeed2.cpp on Windows and specified a 256 MB buffer size. Windows obliged by swelling the buffer size to hold 256 MB of data before the ReadFile() was issued. The system slowed to a crawl and I didn't wait until the operation completed. Whether this "feature" of Windows is useful or not is up to the public.

    Well, i am sure it started out as a feature..

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  3. In other news... by szcx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dell announces that Windows XP outperforms Linux. Slashdot denounces study as biased.

  4. AIX by kireK · · Score: 2, Funny

    So why didn;t IBM show the specs for AIX as well? Did AIX do even worse than XP?

  5. Meanwhile in an IBM Exec's office... by succotash · · Score: 2, Funny

    "tell me again why we pay this Dr. to test pipes? And howcome half of his budget goes towards delivery pizza??"

  6. grammer? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2, Funny

    Although I new Linux would fare the best

    I know this my sound a little.....stupid coming from me, for those that know my postings, but even I am not this bad.

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