From: gthaker@atl.ge.com (Gautam H. Thaker) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: 9 Jul 1993 08:19:40
In article <21ho7n$sjl@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
[.. stuff about how good is Linux deleted. I couldn't agree more.]
Here are just a couple of examples. Linux has the best runtime library I've
ever used. Linux has the most complete and the most useful implementation of
the /proc filesystem that I've ever seen. Its file system performance BLOWS
AWAY that of commercial PC Unixes; I still don't understand how "zcat | tar"
can go so much faster on my 486/IDE than it does on the Iris at work. Let's
see, what else... Did I mention Copy-On-Write?
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| JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
I too am really very happy with the speed of things like zcat |tar etc. on
Linux. Is this all due to the buffer cache? I have been compiling same
program both on Linux (8 Mb, 486/33 64k cache) and SUN SS2 (48 Mb, SUNOS
4.1.3) with gcc 2.x.x. On Linux it compiles and links much much
faster. Runs faster too, which I find even harder to believe. I hope to do
some exact tests and post numbers. SS2 has no excuse for being slower.
Perhaps SS2 is slower due to NFS, but with 48 Mb of memory not much else
being done subsequent gcc calls ought to be fast, but are still rather slow.