Is NT faster?

[Steve Nelson]

I just installed CF for linux on one of my boxes and ran a couple tests to compare the Operating systems.  I used the same machine with NT, CF and IIS on one install and Linux, Apache and CF.  I also had SQL 7 running on a separate box... I didn't think to do more tests, but I did 3 tests on both boxes.  I ran the tests by getting the execution time around a few lines of code and running that 40 times and averaging the results.  Here were my initial conclusions:   Test 1: use cffile to select a 1 meg file and output it to the screen On NT: 78.8 milliseconds On Linux: 145.2 milliseconds Test 2: run a big query and group the output: On NT: 1771.5 milliseconds On Linux: 3304.5 milliseconds Test 3: run a big query using data caching and group the output: On NT: 407.6 milliseconds On Linux: 1421.8 milliseconds   All three tests show that NT is considerably faster, although I haven't performance tuned this Linux box very well, mainly because I don't know how.  I'm sure these times could be shaved down a little.   Now I'm thinking about doing more tests to get a better understanding of the differences.  I'm also very curious to know about these types of tests with different type of hardware.  Is anyone interested in this type of information?   Steve