Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Mar 2006 21:54 UTC, submitted by mcsimpson
GeekPatrol uses their GeekBench tool to compare Windows XP and OSX, both running on MacBook Pros. "Overall, there are areas where the Windows XP MacBook Pro was faster, areas where the Mac OS X MacBook Pro was faster, and areas where they were both roughly the same. Looking at these results, it's hard to say which configuration comes out on top, although I think you could make a convincing argument for Windows XP (with Visual C++) being a bit faster overall than Mac OS X (with GCC)."
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2005-11-09
Great... so this benchmark is saying "if you are doing windows programming.. use VC++ not GCC"
wow... what was the point of this test then?