Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/06/16/08:54:31
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, salvador wrote:
>
> > Me again with the gcc/egcs/pgcc/MSVC/Watcom comparisson.
>
> Won't the fact that the benchmarks were all run from Windows 95 affect
> the comparison (due to Windows' overhead which doesn't have to be the
> same for PM DOS program and Win32 program)?
I have the results of two actual runs, one using Djgpp's GCC in a DOS box and
the other Borland's C++ Builder with the same CPP source. The program which
processed a 255 Mbyte text file. Djgpp finished in 10 min 31 sec, the Builder
in 17 min 3 sec. The cause of this difference must be the inefficiency of the
Windows implementation of the FAT32 file system. The same program compiled in
Linux and run on the same machine using the same FAT32 file system mounted
under /dos/d finished in 1 min 21 sec...
I understand that this is not simply a compiler test, but it is interesting
nevertheless...
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Question #7: How Can I Make Linux More Like Windows?
'Hmmm. Rebuild the kernel to use every memory-hogging feature you can find.
Reboot every
couple of days whether you need to or not. And every 18 months or so, send a
check for $99
to Bill Gates. That should do the trick.' (CNET - 10 questions about Linux
[4.28.1999])
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