It's interesting to compare how long it takes to process one unit on different platforms at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/platforms .html
Alpha/Windows: 8 hr 16 min i386-unknown-openbsd2.5: 11 hr 27 min i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1: 12 hr 06 min alpha-dec-osf3.0: 13 hr 08 min i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static: 13 hr 50 min Macintosh: 28 hr 13 min Pentium/Windows: 48 hr 59 min
It seems windows is faaar behind all kinds of linux, but also the macs, so it's not the more graphical client that the win-users (I guess mac-users get a graphical client too?) get, which slows the chewing down. Must be the os.
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It's interesting to compare how long it takes to process one unit on different platforms at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/platforms .html
Alpha/Windows: 8 hr 16 min
i386-unknown-openbsd2.5: 11 hr 27 min
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1: 12 hr 06 min
alpha-dec-osf3.0: 13 hr 08 min
i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static: 13 hr 50 min
Macintosh: 28 hr 13 min
Pentium/Windows: 48 hr 59 min
It seems windows is faaar behind all kinds of linux, but also the macs, so it's not the more graphical client that the win-users (I guess mac-users get a graphical client too?) get, which slows the chewing down. Must be the os.