On the topic of performances I just came across this post on phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-10-lxcore&num=1
TL;DR: benchmarks give surprisingly good performances provided you do not access the filesystem. At the moment, while running sage could be ok, this would make compiling it on WSL a terrible nightmare. S. * Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> [2016-07-26 18:37:43]: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:33 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 9:21 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > >>> OS bashing will not be tolerated. > >> > >> But company bashing will... ;-) > >> > >> Microsoft used to have a POSIX layer also; no idea what happened to that > >> (and how usable it actually was/is). > >> > >> But it never made it into mainstream Windows AFAIK. > > > > In the interest of balance, last week Microsoft donated USD $5K to > > support the Women in Sage Days conferences. > > My point exactly :) > > > This new Ubuntu in Windows initiative is really fantastic. I'm glad > > they (evidently) now support fork and pseudotty's -- they didn't when > > somebody tried a few months ago, and I heard that this was their top > > priority. > > Yes. The fork support especially is going to be a big win--fork on > Cygwin is a big ol' mess especially due to DLL rebasing. > > > Regarding the above discussion about speed, what combination of > > OS/Virtualization/Emulations/Native/etc. is actually fastest is not > > something that can be determined by "pure thought", since there are > > two additional factors (which I saw a lot in work of Bill Hart, Jason > > Moxham and Brian Gladman on MPIR and FLINT): > > > > 1. Performance is multidimensional. It can easily be that f(X) is > > faster in one setting, whereas g(X) is slower. Or even that the > > relative speed of f depends on X. > > > > 2. Performance depends enormously on how much work has gone into > > optimizing libraries for certain platforms. E.g., once when I tested > > using MPIR in Linux via VirtualBox on Windows, it was much faster than > > just using MPIR natively built using MSVC (no claims about today). > > Why? Much more effort had gone into optimizing MPIR on Linux than on > > native Windows. > > Yes--this is why I hesitate to assume one way or the other. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
