Star Solaris and Windows Performance Compared
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Oct 2006 04:33 UTC, submitted by mcsimpson
Benchmarks A benchmarking comparison of Solaris 10 and Windows XP (64bit) running on a Sun Ultra 20 M2 Dual Core Opteron 1210 workstation. "Overall, I'm pleased with the performance of the Sun Ultra 20 M2. While this model (with an Opteron 1210) isn't quite as fast as a low-end Mac Pro, it's less than half the price of a low-end Mac Pro. Models equipped with faster Opterons (like the Opteron 1218) will certainly be more competitive when it comes to performance."
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Wes Felter
Member since:
2005-11-15

This is actually a Visual C++ vs. Sun Studio compiler test.

If Sun's compilers are so great, maybe they should sell them on Windows...

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Marcellus Member since:
2005-08-26

More like Sun Studio on Solaris vs Visual C++ on Windows.

Don't know any differences between the source of the benchies between the two platforms, or if there are other things that differ between how the benchies are run, so I'm not gonna comment the results themselves.

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smitty Member since:
2005-10-13

The Geekbench benchmark isn't that great anyway, and is going to depend fairly heavily on certain compiler and library settings if I remember right. Like how large of chunks memory is allocated in by default - there was a big thread about it quite a while ago.

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drdoug Member since:
2006-04-30

If Sun's compilers are so great, maybe they should sell them on Windows...

You can download the Sun Studio compiler for free (If you want you can pay for support). Sorry, no Windows version. I am sure that if they did make a Windows version (unlikely), it would also be free.

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