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SphinUX OS Claims To Be ~150% Faster Than GNU/Linux
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostIf it really is that much faster then I think the only honorable thing would be for the whole linux kernel team to commit seppuku. They spewed so much bullshit about their godlike programming skills and the linux speed that there will be no way out for them....
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Originally posted by qlum View PostAt least one of the claims has been factually proven to be incorrect as it would be impossible for a os to use 300% or in other words creates twice the ram linux uses out of thin air while the thing itself doesn't use any memory.
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Originally posted by F i L View PostI don't understand how these claims are confusing people... 300% better ram usage doesn't mean they're saying your system suddenly has 3x more ram in general... it means they're saying their kernel uses 3x less ram than linux.. 100% faster means twice as fast, etc..
Since the kernel actually does nothing useful itself, the best metric you can say is that it gets out of the way and lets the application do its work. In that case, the best the kernel could possibly do is get 100% faster, because that would mean that the time/memory/etc that the kernel adds to execution has gone to zero. But 100% is the impossible ideal. (Unless you have some sort of out-of-band cpu and memory, allowing the user-state cpu/memory to be 100% focused, but then that's a different type of overhead completely.)
If the kernel actually produced something useful, then maybe it could actually get 100% or even 300% faster - but it doesn't, and that's not its job.
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I find these RAM-Nazis to be quite amusing everytime. How often do you hear stuff like "*mimimimi* Browser A uses 100 MB more than browser B!!!!!" Wow seriously who gives a shit about RAM usage. Might aswell just let the program write everything to disk and use 0% RAM if that somehow is considered to be cool and efficient.
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Originally posted by qlum View PostAt least one of the claims has been factually proven to be incorrect as it would be impossible for a os to use 300% or in other words creates twice the ram linux uses out of thin air while the thing itself doesn't use any memory.
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