From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) Subject: Re: Performance of Linux and BSD Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 03:54:07 GMT
randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) writes:
: I'm curious how the performance of BSD and Linux compare. I already
: know that Linux is very small compared to BSD, and maybe that makes it
: faster. On the other hand, maybe Linux is missing some performance
: tricks.
Grin. Other way around. Maybe BSD is midding some performance tricks...
:)
BSD doesn't have shared lib's yet (as far as I know). This kinda kills
program startup time. Does it do demand pageing?? On the other hand, it
does have a much faster file system (which I am currently porting to
linux)
: Also, any other comment comparing the two would be helpful.
:
: -Thanks
: -Randy
Michael