Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

[Shri Shrikumar <shri@urbyte.com>]

> 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...).

Ummmm.... out of curiosity, Why / how does windows beat Linux ? Is it
technically very difficult / impossible to have an OS that does
processes and threads very fast or has Linux CHOSEN to give more
importance to processes than to threads and why ?


Thanx



Shri