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On 4 Cze, 10:56, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:

> > The typical requirement is that your application must be faster then
> > the competition, otherwise you go out of business.
>
> If this were true, Linux would have wiped out Windows...
>
> (Sorry, couldn't resist)

I understand the joke, but unfortunately it does not work for this
case. One of these two products gained the market first, so the rest
is really more about social engineering that genuine technical
competition.
In other words, being faster is not enough for Linux to wipe out
Windows, although certainly if it was slower than Windows, then you
might forget about it altogether.

And, to make it a bit more interesting, I have recently run a small
interprocess communication (based of local TCP/IP) benchmark in two
environments:
- Mac OS
- Windows XP in the virtual machine running on the same Mac OS

You might think that the second environment was obviously in a
disadvantage.

To my big surprise, the second test was repeatably and consistently
faster. Not by a large margin, but measurably (several percent). Of
course Mac OS is not Linux, so I do not want to conclude anything
about Linux this way, but certainly I would not be terribly shocked to
see something similar happening on Linux as well.
Interesting, isn't it?

--
Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com

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