Benchmarking Ubuntu 18.04 On Windows Subsystem for Linux: WSL Leading Bare Linux In More Tests

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 18 May 2018 at 03:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 6. 10 Comments.
Ubuntu 18.04 WSL Core i9 7980XE

In the Fhourstones test, WSL was actually faster than the bare metal Ubuntu 18.04 installation, due to better CPU frequency scaling on Windows or other optimizations.

Ubuntu 18.04 WSL Core i9 7980XE

The SciMark2 benchmark with Ubuntu 18.04 WSL was also faster than the native Ubuntu 18.04 installation.

Ubuntu 18.04 WSL Core i9 7980XE

While the x264 video encoding performance remained slightly lower with WSL.

Ubuntu 18.04 WSL Core i9 7980XE

The OpenMP-driven GraphicsMagick image resizing process also had some performance overhead with WSL.

Ubuntu 18.04 WSL Core i9 7980XE

The Stockfish chess engine was delivering roughly the same performance throughout.

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