Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:59, Mike McCarty wrote:
This is a common misconception. Windows is often portrayed as a cycle hog. Since doing benchmarks is one of my hobbies (I dunno why), I have run benchmarks on about a dozen machines I own, with three or on some even five different OS installed. Windows is not a cycle hog.
Until you try to do something... Benchmark the time to create a new process on windows vs.about anything else, or the time wasted in context switching among them.
By far the slowest machine/OS combination I have is Linux (FC2) on my fastest (2.7GHz) machine. Windows XP on that same machine is noticeably faster (not just measurably faster).
As an example, I just "right clicked" on my desktop, and it took five (5) seconds for the menu to pop up. Selecting "open terminal" took ten (10) seconds before first prompt. I have no unusual scripts which run at terminal startup. Windows XP is much faster in starting a console window.
I just opened Open Office "Writer Word Processor", and it took thirty nine (39) seconds to initialize.
Mike