> For this particular benchmark, yes. If you want a rather less
> contrived benchmark, why not compare Apache running under both Windows
> NT and FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris? It's available for all those platforms
> and given that you're running the same application, it would be a fair
> assumption that any difference in performance will be due to the OS
> itself and you'll also be able to stand by your benchmark as
> indicative of something people actually CARE about, namely web server
> performance.
I'm not convinced this is a fair test either, particularly unix vs windows,
for 2 main reasons:
1) The Apache port has not recieved as much attention as the unix ports, in
terms of development effort/time
2) Implementations of identical features may take radically different code
paths, not all of which are equivilant in performance. There may indeed be
better ways of implementing feature X on windows than on unix, but because
it's a port, those implementations may not have been used.
I'm not convinced there is any such thing as a fair benchmark, nor am I
convinced that benchmarks are valuable. Clearly the benchmark cited is
flawed, but what benchmark is not?
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