OK- you're correct- I don't speak for everyone, and my choice of words was unfortunate. Please accept my apology.
However, my experience on several dual boot boxes with different versions of windows and Linux has always been that overall computer performance is significantly better when booted to windows. I'm sorry, but that's what happens- there's no question about it. Of course I do have any windows installation I run highly tweaked and tuned to perfection( as good as is possible), and perhaps I can tweak my Linux installs a little more than I presently have. Robert Crawford On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:26 pm, et wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:01 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: > > -------Original Message------- > > From: flacycads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: 02/25/03 05:10 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control? > > > > <snip> > > Anyone who dual boots with windows on the same hardware knows that > > windows > > > > performance is noticably better than Linux, and that this is most likely > > due > > to the highly x86 optimized Intel compiler. > > Please... this just is not a fact. this is basicly WRONG in my personal > experiance. M$ just plain sucks compared to Mandrake-Linux on at least _MY_ > hardware, I don't claim to speak for "anyone who dual boots windows, and as > long as I am included in your statement, neither do you. > > > Given that, it's going to be hard to convince me that trying to optimize > > Linux and gcc for newer cpus is not worth the trouble. However, I'll keep > > an > > open mind on the subject, and I'm certainly not an expert. > > > > Robert Crawford > > <snip> > > > > Robert, > > > > I thought anything after Windows NT runs on Pentium and above (or K6 and > > above if you use AMD). If that's the case, then it's not anymore > > optimized than Mandrake, so any increased performance on a Windows box is > > not do to optimization. > > not true, you need much more starting with win ME > > > If you truly want to see what effect optimization may have for your > > system, recompile the kernel and run some benchmarks (actually before and > > after). Since everything else runs on top of the kernel, it recompiling > > it should give the most bang for your buck. I can tell you, though, that > > on my systems (K6-450 and Duron 1.3ghz), removing stuff that's not used > > in the kernel has a bigger impact on performance than optimizing for the > > CPU (maybe it has something to do with AMD vs Intel, I don't know, but > > the chip optimization seemed to have little impact). > > > > Joeb
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