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Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39

Posted by timothy on from the phrase-in-person-hours-saved dept.

sfcrazy writes "While we were thinking that the announcement of 3.x branch was nothing more than Linus' mood swing, it seems there is more to it. Linus wrote on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, '3.0 will still be noticeably faster than 2.6.39 due to the other changes made (ie the read-ahead), so yes, the regression itself is fixed.'"

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  1. Faster? by ZombieBraintrust · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What does faster mean? What will be faster? Are they talking huge Linux servers or Linux Desktops? Latency? User Interface?

    1. Re:Faster? by TarMil · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, the subject of the news is the kernel, not the rest of the OS.

  2. Re:Windows 8 by Annirak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Windows Vista was slower than Windows XP.

    You win some, you lose some.

  3. Re:prefetch() by Annirak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this is the case, wouldn't CONFIG_USE_PREFETCH be a better solution?

  4. Re:Windows 8 by aeoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On shitty hardware, yes.

    When you compare two versions of the same operating system to determine which version is faster, you always use the exact same hardware configuration for both.