>
> No, not based on Linux HFS+, but based on a number of reports I've read

over the past few years, all citing disk I/O as a reason not to use Mac

for production or benchmarking.


Here's a recent set of benchmarks doing real-world things:


http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_jaunty_osx&num=1

Mac OS X is better with some tasks, Linux with others.  Let's leave the
broad generalizations to Slashdot.  ;-)

-Matt

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[email protected]>wrote:

> -- Matthew Ratzloff <[email protected]> wrote
> (on Monday, 01 June 2009, 07:44 AM -0700):
> > "The Mac I/O system is notoriously slow."
> >
> > LOL, what?  I hope you're not basing that on HFS+ performance on
> > Linux, which is marginal at best.
>
> No, not based on Linux HFS+, but based on a number of reports I've read
> over the past few years, all citing disk I/O as a reason not to use Mac
> for production or benchmarking.
>
> > (He's using Windows, by the way.)
>
> Ah -- missed that part. I could have sworn he'd said Mac at one point.
>
>
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     -- admirau <[email protected]> wrote
> >     (on Monday, 01 June 2009, 12:58 AM -0700):
> >     > Matthew Ratzloff wrote:
> >     > > So the obvious next step would be to post your PHP CLI include
> path.
> >     > > php -i | grep "include_path"
> >     >
> >     > include_path => c:\users\user\www\library;. => c:\users\user\www\
> >     library;.
> >     >
> >     > library/
> >     >     Zend/
> >     >     Doctrine/
> >     >     PHPTAL/
> >     >
> >     > I use SET
> ZEND_TOOL_INCLUDE_PATH_PREPEND="C:\users\user\www\library\Zend\
> >     "
> >     > + autoloader + removed all require_once + upgreded to stable php
> 5.2.9-2
> >     >
> >     > This helps a little, but still it is 100 times slower than on
> Ubuntu.
> >
> >     The Mac I/O system is notoriously slow. Unfortunately, Zend_Tool
> needs
> >     to scan all class files in your include_path to determine what
> classes
> >     it can consume -- which means opening a lot of files. It may make
> sense
> >     for us to introduce some sort of caching mechanism into Zend_Tool so
> >     that you only incur a slow-down the first time you call it.
> >
> >     --
> >     Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> >     Project Lead            | [email protected]
> >     Zend Framework          | http://framework.zend.com/
> >
>
> --
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> Project Lead            | [email protected]
> Zend Framework          | http://framework.zend.com/
>

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