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Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP
Mortimer.CA writes "In a weblog entry, Paul Murphy mentions a Microsoft report (40 page PDF) that in many instances FreeBSD 5.3 and Linux perform better than Windows XP SP2. The report is about MS' Singularity kernel (which does perform better than the OSS kernels by many of the metrics they use), and some future directions in OS design (as well as examination of the way things have been done in the past)." From the post: "What's noteworthy about it is that Microsoft compared Singularity to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP - and almost every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants. For example, they show the number of CPU cycles needed to "create and start a process" as 1,032,000 for FreeBSD, 719,000 for Linux, and 5,376,000 for Windows/XP."
Isn't it telling that the idea of Microsoft telling the truth is considered front page news on /.?
The Russian Mafia will mod you down just to see if the Moderate button works.
hmm funny, the last step is Acceptance. Too bad it seems Microsoft skipped the "bargaining" step.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
Is that including the spyware/worm/rootkit overhead?
In twenty or so years we may look back at Microsoft Research with the same admiration we have for Bell Labs.
I just shot soda out of my nose. You owe me a keyboard.
Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.
I bet the person who put that report on MS's site has been drooling over the severance package... ;-)
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I just have to bow before the guy who can read a 44 page pdf and post an intelligible, coherent comment on it in less than two minutes. I just have to ask - where do you get that kind of caffeine?
Amazing.
The Russian Mafia will mod you down just to see if the Moderate button works.
The future: Longhorn will suck far more memory than XP.
They must be in cahoots with the memory makers, alert Rambus!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
see which takes longer
Is "searching the manpages" included in the benchmark time?
*Ducks*
is also the number of cycles needed to crash a process.
Finally a proper microkernel OS design by Microsoft! prof Tanenbaum would be proud!
/.: Die M$ XP, DIE! *pinky to mouth*
Come on, who cares about statistics? I'm glad they're actually doing something useful: CS research!
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You, sir, actually know something about computers and are not welcome here. Or, at least, please confine your comments to "I bet Steve Ballmer through a chair at teh flying spagetti monstar!!!!" and the like.
he gets it right here
Entirely OT, I know, but...
Why is it that some people seem to think that all OS names, when they have a qualifier of some kind attached to the generic term, need a slash to separate them? Just because GNU/Linux is written that way does not mean it's some kind of law, people...
It's Windows XP. That's WINDOWS {SPACE} XP. And Mac OS X. Spaces. No slashes.
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I don't know why I even bother...
Dan Aris
Fun. Free. Online. RPG. BattleMaster.
I bet you don't get a dancing paperclip with Linux, do you?
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That's about as useful a metric as total elapsed urination time.
What's the real delta?