>
> Apparently, and this is a definite (sic) Windows NT 4/2000 with a
> dual-processor running Java out-performs a Linux box of the same spec
> running Java. Originally, the project was trialled to run on
> Linux, but it
> was discovered that NT 4 was faster!!! Has anyone else had any experience
> of this? I was told that it was due to better MP support in NT 4/2000???
>
I have also seen Windows outperform linux when doing Java. I do not think it
is the MP code, but rather the JVM which is far better optimised on Windows
(especially multithreading is handled more efficiently, which does a lot in
server applications).
When people say java is faster on linux they invariably talk about IBM 1.3
with Hotspot being faster than 1.2 on Windows without Hotspot.
Jeroen T. Wenting
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Murphy was wrong, things that can't go wrong will anyway
