Python tests used to compare different OSes(william-os4y.livejournal.com)
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Python tests used to compare different OSes
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Great. Wonderful.
So what does it mean to "win" the test? What do any of those numbers even mean?
So what does it mean to "win" the test? What do any of those numbers even mean?
Doesn't it test a Python implementation on different OS rather than the OS itself?
Very interesting, but these OSes are actually just 2 branches of the "unix" tree of OSes. Too bad he didn't include Windows, or OpenVMS, very different operating systems.
The only experiment using Windows NT vs NetBSD that I'm aware of is this: "The Measured Performance of Personal Computer Operating Systems" (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/papers/sosp95/). On the same hardware, for cross-platform tasks, NetBSD outperformed Windows NT. This was in 1995, so it was probably Windows NT 3.51 and NetBSD 1.0 or 1.1
The only experiment using Windows NT vs NetBSD that I'm aware of is this: "The Measured Performance of Personal Computer Operating Systems" (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/papers/sosp95/). On the same hardware, for cross-platform tasks, NetBSD outperformed Windows NT. This was in 1995, so it was probably Windows NT 3.51 and NetBSD 1.0 or 1.1
Now if it was only a matter of what operating system without tuning works best on this one machine without tuning, then this might just legitimate.