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> From: Greg Barish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > I agree with both Jean-Michel and Mark.
> >
> > As of right now, the NT/Intel combination is the best, at least if
> > you believe the recent (yet controversial) Mindcraft/PC Week "open
> > benchmarks", in which the NT/Intel combo siginficantly outperformed
> > Linux, _even with_ the Red Hat guys tuning Linux for the benchmark.
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> This is _very_ untrue. Indeed, some facts about the Mindcraft review have to
> be made public, including:
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> 1) the benchmarking was paid my Microsoft
> 2) users (and RedHat) answered Mindcraft's request for tuning information,
> but instead of providing the extra information RedHat/usenetters needed for
> a specific answer, they quietly hid in disguise of an anonymous user.
> 3) they tuned samba (which was used for windows file sharing tests) so
> badly, it performed even worse than if it had not been messed with at all
> 4) they used extra-verbose logs, which slowed down apache quite a bit
> (because then disk i/o gets to be an important factor)
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> More can be found at http://slashdot.org/features/99/04/23/1316228.shtml
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I'm sorry, but this URL tells me that these claims were posted on
4/23/99, which is a full 3 months _BEFORE_ Mindcraft re-ran their
benchmark, with the Red Hat guys there.
The info I posted had to do with the re-run of the Mindcraft tests,
after the Red Hat community complained. NT still significantly
outperformed Linux.
This should not be a religious war. I thought most people were interested
in the performance of a JVM on a given platform, whether the maker of the
OS is Microsloth or Green Hat, it shouldn't matter. We should be interested
in numbers, not labels.
Also, as for the study being paid for by Microsoft, I believe you are
right. But, if you had a faster OS, wouldn't you sponsor a benchmark, too?
Should they just wait around for the benchmark angel to fly by or what?
Do we have to immediately assume it's an Oliver Stone movie?
::: Greg Barish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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