"James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:28:36 -0500
> Joseph Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ian, Tim, again, thank you very much in answering my question.
> >
> > I am a bit disappointed that the whole discussion group does not have
> > one person to stand up and say "yeah, OpenSolaris absolutely
> > outperforms Linux and Windows, because......"
>
> Why? What purpose would it serve? For some tasks Linux outperforms
> Windows and OpenSolaris. For some tasks Windows outperforms OpenSolaris
> and linux. For some tasks OpenSolaris outperforms linux and Windows.
And in any case, the numbers do not tell useful things if you did not run the
right tests. If you e.g. meter the time to unpack a tar archive using GNU tar
on Linux, you cannot tell what you metered at all as the related actions in the
OS kernel are not in sync with the runtime of GNU tar.
An OS that feels slower may actuall be much faster just because people have
subjective impressions and because one OS may have been optiomized to result in
best subjective impressions only.
Jörg
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