Also, while raw performance of a Java application may be higher on
Linux, it is many peoples experience that the opposite is the case
with perceived performance of anything with a UI. In short, on the
same machine, NetBeans FEELS faster when running on Windows than
running on Linux. I've heard this is due to the relatively old X
server design, don't really know, but it often comes up on nbusers
mailing list with people who just switched to Linux. And to be honest,
I would prefer perceived performance over synthetic-micro-benchmark-of-
the-day performance.

/Casper

On Jan 12, 11:41 pm, Marco Zühlke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think the comparison that indicates that Ubuntu is much faster than
> Windows Vista results from the fact that they have compared the server
> Hotspot VM on Linux against the client one on Vista.
> On Windows, if not specified otherwise, always the client VM is
> chosen. On Linux in contrary this decisions depends on the machine.
> More than 2GB of RAM and more than 2 cores result in the server VM.
>
> The article does not mention that one of both Hotspot VMs has been
> chosen deliberately, so the default selection took place. I think the
> numbers are in line with this.
>
> Would be nice to have a REAL comparison between Windows, Mac and Linux
> using the same JDK and the same Hotspot version on the same hardware.
>
> Marco
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