Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 18 May 2009 at 02:00 AM EDT. Page 11 of 11. 55 Comments.

Monte Carlo was also faster in our newest tests.

Ending out today's benchmarking, the overall composite performance in Java SciMark was up with Ubuntu x86_64.

As you can see from the results, using an Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit installation is much faster in some areas than Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit and it makes Linux more competitive with Mac OS X. However, there are still a few areas where Ubuntu Linux performed badly compared to Mac OS X 10.5.6: graphics, file encryption, SQLite, threaded disk reads and writes, PostgreSQL, Sunflow ray-tracing, and Bork file encryption were the key places where Ubuntu continued to struggle.

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