Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:34:57 -0800 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: af300wsm@gmail.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows Message-ID: <20081205083457.283d3deb@tau> In-Reply-To: <0016e64ca7d690e38f045d45227d@google.com> References: <0016e64ca7d690e38f045d45227d@google.com>
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On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:30:20 +0000 af300wsm@gmail.com wrote: > I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At > work, someone got the grand idea that we should move to Windoze > embedded (CE and XPe) and it's been quite discouraging I must say, > though I must admit, it's nice to actually know why Windows is ugly > underneath. From a programming perspective, it's just not simplistic. > Anyway, I digress, I'm just curious to see how things compare to > Windows on similar benchmarks to what Kris provided if its ever been > done. > The userland win32 API might be rather unpleasant but I was surprised to learn to driver interface in the kernel is actually quite nice, and isn't too dissimilar to FreeBSD in some ways. In terms of performance Windows-based machines have made it into the Top500 list of supercomputers, so at the high end performance must be acceptable at least. -- Bruce Cran
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