What Linux vs. OS X Performance Tests Should Be Run Next?

[peppercats]

how about price per dollar spent on hardware

[fguerraz]

Memory management

I find OS X memory management absolutely appalling! I needlessly uses swap and do other weird and wonderful things. That's actually why I switched from Mac OS X to Fedora on my Macbook Pro because memory management sucks so much (and I won't even start with HFS+...).

So, am I right in thinking it's crap or is it just an impression? Could a benchmark evaluate that?

[duby229]

how about price per dollar spent on hardware

Performance per dollar? I'm not sure what you mean by price per dollar.

[dimko]

Let's talk seriously, Michael.


2) OpenGL tests because most people who use Linux do NOT play games or play very simple games

Were you ironical here?

[dimko]

you can't compare start up speed across OS-s for programs that depend on UI libraries
example VLC uses QT so it would start way faster under KDE then under GNOME or OSX

Yes you can compare. And fact of the matter - Linux allows you to switch between KDE, Gnome, etc. It's strength of Linux.
I have atm on my PC, both, KDE and XFCE, I can run any one of them at will.

If most of the programs in the world suddenly become QT and Mac has issues running them - it's Mac's problem, not Linux.

[dungeon]

I am interested to see how fast you can format OS_X installation in comparison to Windows formating from Linux

[duby229]

Yes you can compare. And fact of the matter - Linux allows you to switch between KDE, Gnome, etc. It's strength of Linux.
I have atm on my PC, both, KDE and XFCE, I can run any one of them at will.

If most of the programs in the world suddenly become QT and Mac has issues running them - it's Mac's problem, not Linux.

Well, if you are booted to a KDE desktop, QT is already loaded in memory. If you're booted up to a Gnome desktop then QT will have to load at application start time. It's not really a problem, it's just not a comparable condition.

[chrisq]

Performance per dollar? I'm not sure what you mean by price per dollar.

I'd be interested in dollars per fps.

[duby229]

I'd be interested in dollars per fps.

Yeah ok, I understand now. Me too.

[Michael]

I'd be interested in dollars per fps.

I sort of had/have that support... OpenBenchmarking.org can query realtime prices of products via Amazon.com, but sadly with some PC components, the reported product strings by the OS don't match what Amazon matches it to.