He's right you know. I ran the phone system for a company I previously worked for. There was a log of all numbers called that the boss reviewed every so often. Towards the end, he was considering adding on a "recording system" that would keep a week's worth of conversations from the phone system stored. That one seemed to border on criminal to me, even though the phone system company offered it. It was one of the many reasons I left.
One small group of scientists that agree to agree with eachother agree that global warming is occuring and that humans are to blame. That doesn't exactly equate to ALL scientists agreeing thet global warming, or that if it is happening humans have anything to do with it.
In short, the debate rages on, and we are none the wiser.
Why would a company center its business strategy on an operating system that only holds a very, very small number of users compared to other operating systems? I mean, a company should be out to make money, and I would think that would be rather difficult when you focus on such a small minority within the computing "community". Add to that that you are focusing on a minority that prefers to get things for free, and exactly how do you plan on staying in business?
These are serious questions. I need serious answers.
No, not the computers themselves. It's sitting on your dead ass, twenty-four/seven, eating nothing but stale pizza, staler cheetos, and drinking huge doses of carbonated and caffienated beverages that is bad for your health. That's why I like to do one of those things you probably read about on your precious web called "exercising". Occassionally, I even go so far as to go "outside". The light coming from the sky isn't that scary after the first hour or so.
OK, let's go through this point by point shall we?
I'm sorry, but I can't see how this is a valid benchmark.
TRANSLATION I don't like the results, therfore they can't possibly be valid.
"As a real-world test, we...performance."
Nice! So in other words, they used straight BSD sockets for their
implementation - which is NOT the way to get performance from Windows. You
need to use:
1. Asynchronous, Event based socket handling.
2. Completion ports.
3. Scatter/Gather buffering.
Polling is lousy no matter what way you do it. You'll lose most of your
performance spent going round a small loop.
TRANSLATION I'm Bill's bitch and I won't tolerate anyone saying anything even remotely bad about Windows. If Windows looks bad it can only be because you are not being fair.
Similarly you can infer that they used straight malloc() for their memory
handling, and most likely file handling - again very lousy
performance-wise on windows compared to the alternatives, such as
VirtualAlloc, CreateFile(), scatter-gather file handling and more.
TRANSLATION Similarly, I'm also quite certain that I can find a few more things to whine about. Oh, and did I mention what an anal bastard I am?
As for the second test, we can guess (from their comments) that they're
using straight C++/C file operations under windows instead of tuning them to
the architecture, so of course performance is going to be lousy -- they're
benchmarking Microsoft's C runtime implementation, nothing more, nothing
less.
TRANSLATION I'm gonna make a bunch of assumptions because, again, I'm not happy with the results. And I'm also going to take some pot-shots at Microsoft's C runtime implementation, as if I know what the fuck that actually means.
Also note that:
1. They don't provide details of which compiler they're using.
2. They don't provide details of the actual benchmark code for test 2.
3. They only tuned the Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris setups -- they should have
tuned Win2k server as well.
TRANSLATION Also note that:
1. I don't realize that I've covered all this already.
2. I'm gonna pretend that I actually know something here.
3. Somebody finally did the same thing to Microsoft that Microsoft constantly does to them, and I wanna whine about how unfair it is to the multi-billion dollar corporation that someone dares to say another OS has any possibility of performing as well as MS's great operating systems.
Sheesh. Talk about a crappy way to benchmark.
TRANSLATION Have I mentioned yet that I'm Bill's bitch and I can't stand to see Windows proven as the faulty piece of shit that it is?
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He's right you know. I ran the phone system for a company I previously worked for. There was a log of all numbers called that the boss reviewed every so often. Towards the end, he was considering adding on a "recording system" that would keep a week's worth of conversations from the phone system stored. That one seemed to border on criminal to me, even though the phone system company offered it. It was one of the many reasons I left.
In short, the debate rages on, and we are none the wiser.
These are serious questions. I need serious answers.
No, not the computers themselves. It's sitting on your dead ass, twenty-four/seven, eating nothing but stale pizza, staler cheetos, and drinking huge doses of carbonated and caffienated beverages that is bad for your health. That's why I like to do one of those things you probably read about on your precious web called "exercising". Occassionally, I even go so far as to go "outside". The light coming from the sky isn't that scary after the first hour or so.
TRANSLATION I don't like the results, therfore they can't possibly be valid.
TRANSLATION I'm Bill's bitch and I won't tolerate anyone saying anything even remotely bad about Windows. If Windows looks bad it can only be because you are not being fair.
TRANSLATION Similarly, I'm also quite certain that I can find a few more things to whine about. Oh, and did I mention what an anal bastard I am?
TRANSLATION I'm gonna make a bunch of assumptions because, again, I'm not happy with the results. And I'm also going to take some pot-shots at Microsoft's C runtime implementation, as if I know what the fuck that actually means.
TRANSLATION Also note that:
1. I don't realize that I've covered all this already.
2. I'm gonna pretend that I actually know something here.
3. Somebody finally did the same thing to Microsoft that Microsoft constantly does to them, and I wanna whine about how unfair it is to the multi-billion dollar corporation that someone dares to say another OS has any possibility of performing as well as MS's great operating systems.
TRANSLATION Have I mentioned yet that I'm Bill's bitch and I can't stand to see Windows proven as the faulty piece of shit that it is?