Windows 10 vs. Windows WSL vs. Linux - Ubuntu / openSUSE / Debian / Clear Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 28 March 2018 at 10:30 AM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 12 Comments.
Windows 10, Linux WSL Tests March 2018 Test

The 7-Zip compression performance was only lightly affected when running the three Linux distributions on WSL.

Windows 10, Linux WSL Tests March 2018 Test

Also no real difference with the C-Ray ray-tracing performance when run under WSL.

Windows 10, Linux WSL Tests March 2018 Test

The FLAC audio encoding performance was also basically the same except for openSUSE running slower, likely due to its older GCC4-based compiler stack.

Windows 10, Linux WSL Tests March 2018 Test

With Libjpeg's tjbench, there were no real surprises either in the performance.


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