In a bold display of creativity, ScratchMonkey wrote:
If a Windows install is better, we should determine exactly what the issue is that keeps Linux from matching it. The first step to that objective is to establish exactly what we're measuring.
By the way, IIRC the conclusion reached by people who know far more about such things than I ever will is that the whole thing was and continues to be written on Windows for Windows and is simply ported to Linux, and somewhere in there there's a difference in optimizations and what things can be taken advantage of on one platform versus another...yada yada yada. In other words, it's not to say there's anything inherent to Windows itself that provides better performance, nor is there anything inherent to Linux that makes it worse, but rather that being a native Win32 app ported to Linux winds up with the native Win32 version performing better on the same hardware. But again, this isn't something I bleed over, nor does it keep me up a night, nor do I care to be involved in any "we" that sets out to solve this mysterious riddle. -- Eric (the Deacon remix) _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
