On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > On 01/21/2013 08:11 AM, Dave Page wrote: > >>> >>> I was never able to determine why the Windows instances were so much >>> slower than the corresponding Linux instance of the same type. >> >> Full vs. para-virtualisation perhaps? >> > > No, Windows builds just are slower. For some time the buildfarm has been > reporting run times for various members, so there's plenty of data on this. > For example, nightjar and currawong are respectively FreeBSD/gcc and > WindowsXP/VC2008 members running in VMs on the same host. currawong takes > three times as long for a buildfarm run even though it's doing less work.
Hmm, OK. I don't build PostgreSQL interactively enough to notice I guess. For C++ it's definitely the other way round - I can build pgAdmin in a fraction of the time in a Windows VM than I can on the host Mac it runs on. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
