They Say A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

[deanjo]

yea, this is due to GCC being a worse optimizing compiler compared to VC++. I'll bet the drivers are affected by this as well. Also, firefox+Wine used to be faster than native linux firefox. don't know if that's still the case

Sadly it still remains true.

[garytr24]

I'm somewhat interested to see how the Nvidia propietary drivers score on Win7 vs. Linux. The recent interview suggested that they share 90+% of their code between platforms, and I'd love to see how well that actually is working for Nvidia with respect to cross-platform performance (and if there's any inherent bottlenecks in X or Windows).

I've seen Wine benchmarks in the past that suggest that Wine+Linux can actually run windows applications faster than windows itself (I believe it was some of Anandtech's recent coverage, might've been TechReport). I could see using PTS to comparatively benchmark a few windows game demos against Wine+Demos in PTS (or full versions of the game if there's legal issues running benchmarks on demo versions of said games).

yea, this is due to GCC being a worse optimizing compiler compared to VC++. I'll bet the drivers are affected by this as well. Also, firefox+Wine used to be faster than native linux firefox. don't know if that's still the case

[RealNC]

what a shit kde4 theme.

lol

[Setlec]

OH my Gosh! Let's see how win 7 will badly do on PTS against linux performance.

[Veerappan]

I'm somewhat interested to see how the Nvidia propietary drivers score on Win7 vs. Linux. The recent interview suggested that they share 90+% of their code between platforms, and I'd love to see how well that actually is working for Nvidia with respect to cross-platform performance (and if there's any inherent bottlenecks in X or Windows).

I've seen Wine benchmarks in the past that suggest that Wine+Linux can actually run windows applications faster than windows itself (I believe it was some of Anandtech's recent coverage, might've been TechReport). I could see using PTS to comparatively benchmark a few windows game demos against Wine+Demos in PTS (or full versions of the game if there's legal issues running benchmarks on demo versions of said games).

[d2kx]

What a shit KDE4 theme.

[garytr24]

Awesome

Reasons for this are obvious. It makes linux win :-). If windows is better on some benchmarks, developers will dig in and figure out why and improve linux. If linux wins, well, then people will use it :-).

Objective benchmarks that are meaningful will drive development. And Windows will have a harder time keeping up, maybe.

What this will do is create a fiercer competition between the OS's, and the end users will benefit.

[elvis]

Very interested to see the results.

I regularly need to performance test Windows against Linux/UNIX for crypto speed and 3D rendering speeds for various clients. Access to PTS will make this a whole lot easier.

[bulletxt]

Most importantly, we all want to see what are you hiding in that recycle bin

I think somoone donated a Windows 7 copy to michael... and I think I understood who :P

[DoDoENT]

WOW!

So when can we expect first Win7 vs Fedora (Ubuntu) vs Snow Leopard benchmarks?