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Tests For Socket Performance at IBM DevelWorks

Posted by timothy on from the ball-and-socket dept.

fsoft writes: "In this interesting article at IBM develWorks, Dr. Edward G. Bradford explains sockets and does some benchmark between Linux and (various flavours of) Windows. Quite interesting results."

2 of 10 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WSAStartup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    later on

    It is hard for me to understand how even a substantial subset of these parameterizations can be tested or verified.

    Then you don't know how to test software, or understand what these parameters mean.

    This person is an idiot - or an anti-MS zealot.

    For example ....

    memcpy takes 3 parameters 2 pointers and a size.

    On a 32-bit system my back of the envelope calculation shows there are 2^96 combinations of calls possible. It is hard for me to understand how even a substantial subset of these parameterizations can be tested or verified.

  2. Re:WSAStartup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Finally ... it's a shame he doesn't know how to graph data or take multiple readings to get an average result.

    I really don't doubt linux is faster, but this is a very amateur attempt to prove it.