Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Oct 2006 18:53 UTC, submitted by mcsimpson
"On Monday I posted Geekbench results for my Sun Ultra 20 M2 running Solaris and Windows. Afterwards, I received a number of requests asking how Linux performed on the same hardware. Now that I've finally managed to download Fedora Core 6, here are the Geekbench results for Fedora Core 6 (and Solaris, as a comparison) on a Sun Ultra 20 M2."
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Linux kernel very impressive
by nick on Sat 28th Oct 2006 13:18
in reply to "RE: Solaris and Linux have nothing to do with it"
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Yes, I never realised the Solaris compiler was so far ahead of gcc on x86, let alone SPARC. So I found these compiler benchmarks very interesting.
This makes the Linux kernel all the more impressive when you see results like these, IMO.
http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2006/04/13/more-ubuntu-on-t2000/
Although the kernel may not tend to benefit so much from compiler optimisations as things like these benchmarks, it wouldn't be unlikely to get at least another 5% or so on the above test.
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2005-09-22
Even if it is primarily depending on the compiler, I think that this is still very appropriate. As is the benchmark will reflect the relative performance of the common configurations of the 2 operating environments. When people install Solaris, chances are they'll be using the SUN compilers. When people install Linux, chances are, they'll be using GCC. Sure you can use GCC on Solaris and Sun Studio on Linux, but I would venture to say that most people don't.