Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark
Hi, I want to benchmark my desktop system running in Linux (Gnome, XF86 v3.x,
2.4.5 kernel) against itself running Win98se. Is there a benchmark program
that will work in both enviornments to give me an accurate benchmark?
No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and
poorly. For example: Write a "benchmark" that starts and stops 10,000
processes and Linux will beat Windows hands-down. Write a "benchmark"
that starts and stops 10,000 threads and Windows will beat Linux
hands-down (if it's not still running the process benchmark...).
Yes, of course, if you know what you care about (cf previous example).
If you care about something simple, like floating point arithmetic or
quake frames per second, it won't matter what operating system you run,
because it's all done "in the hardware". If you care about something
complex, like a writing to a disk or using TCP sockets or building up a
tearing down processes, you will get wildly varying answers depending on
which question you ask.
Only zealots and computer magazine publishers believe in the benchmark
that will identify the One True Best Computer.
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