They Say A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

[Michael]

Is PHP5 anything like Python? And why choose a markup language?

PHP isn't a markup language... It can be viewed as similar to Python, it all depends upon who you ask, but this isn't even relevant to this thread.

[duby229]

The bulk of pts-core is written in PHP5.

Is PHP5 anything like Python? And why choose a markup language?

[d2globalinc]

I got a very sick feeling when seeing that damn logo and images on Phoronix.. It's too bright and hurts my eyes.. I don't know whats worse, the windows logo or the internet explorer one..

- D2G

[oliver]

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Good job though ...

still ... chunks ... I'll be back later.

[Michael]

What language is Phoronix Test Suite written in?

(Yes, I'm lazy by not searching it, as it's probably mentioned somewhere)

The bulk of pts-core is written in PHP5.

[kersurk]

What language is Phoronix Test Suite written in?

(Yes, I'm lazy by not searching it, as it's probably mentioned somewhere)

[rohcQaH]

I'm somewhat interested to see how the Nvidia propietary drivers score on Win7 vs. Linux.

I made some tests on win2k vs. linux with doom3 on a 7600GT back then. Linux was about 2-3 fps slower. Of course PTS could give some more varied on more current results - as well as results in other areas than GPU drivers.

Doesn't seem to hold for mobile chips though, my linux performance was significantly worse than windows performance on them.

I've seen Wine benchmarks in the past that suggest that Wine+Linux can actually run windows applications faster than windows itself

Depends on the application. Some parts of Linux are in fact faster, even when mangled through an API wrapper. Others are slower. It's just a matter of picking an application that heavily uses the right APIs to draw any conclusion you like.

Also, firefox+Wine used to be faster than native linux firefox. don't know if that's still the case

still is, because firefox on linux often isn't compiled with PGO (Profile Guided Optimization). Most distributions don't care about the added work of automating profiling & recompiling, and last time I checked there were no official linux binaries with PGO.
Enabling PGO gives roughly ~10% performance, about the difference between windows & linux builds.

It's not that gcc is worse (as garytr24 suggested), it's just that PGO often isn't used because it's not trivial to do in an automated way.

[sreyan]

Fantastic work. This will be great for comparing comparing posix operating systems to windows7 and will serve to either highlight posix superiority or underline where we can improve.

Simply awesome work.

[garytr24]

Sadly it still remains true.

don't think it's that sad, as I imagine a lot of effort goes into MSVC. But, it is important for linux's compilers to improve, as this will benefit every project.

[tronath]

Looking forward to this, well done!