Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:36:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ninja <ninja@aerohel.snu.ac.kr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] Linux vs. FreeBSD: Efficiency Message-ID: <19990330113644.F413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <005801be7a4f$59b98c90$92752e93@aeromdo2.snu.ac.kr>; from Ninja on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:48:03AM %2B0900 References: <005801be7a4f$59b98c90$92752e93@aeromdo2.snu.ac.kr>
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On Tuesday, 30 March 1999 at 10:48:03 +0900, Ninja wrote: > I'm currenlty using linux and plan to change to FreeBSD to > learn more. But I have one question; > Which OS is efficient and fast is there's same source code > program ? I do not want to make a flame war, just want to know > user's point of view. My major computing job is numerical > simulation and program development. It's almost impossible to give an accurate answer to questions like this: it depends so much on what you're doing. If you're running a small number of number crunching programs, I would suspect that you won't find any difference at all, unless the programs use lots of virtual memory, in which case I would expect FreeBSD's VM system to give better performance than Linux. For an independent comparison of server machines, see http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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