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Intel TPC benchmarks show Linux as leader

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-going-to-eleven dept.

prostoalex writes "Intel announced Linux to be the winner of Intel's own TPC-C benchmark test. A 32-processor Itanium machine performed 600,000 transactions per minute under Linux, leading the way before Windows as Unix. IBM's Unix server used to be the leader."

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  1. they used their own compiler in stead of gcc by cyborch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    does this mean that intel's compiler will now be able to compile the linux kernel? and have they submitted their optimizations back to the kernel developer team (the article said that 20-30 percent performance improvement came from changes to linux itself)?