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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. Re:Written by IBM? by iceT · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    IBM's interest in LINUX is primarily on the S/390 platform, not an INTEL platform. Windows 2k/XP isn't available on the primary platform that IBM is touting LINUX for...

    IBM has every bit as much to gain or lose as any other PC/Server manufacturer does in an 386 platform.

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