Windows 10 May 2020 Performance For WSL vs. WSL2

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 17 June 2020 at 11:39 AM EDT. Page 7 of 8. 40 Comments.
Windows 10 WSL May 2020 vs. Ubuntu 20.04

Most pure CPU bound workloads like renderers perform great on WSL/WSL2.

Windows 10 WSL May 2020 vs. Ubuntu 20.04
Windows 10 WSL May 2020 vs. Ubuntu 20.04
Windows 10 WSL May 2020 vs. Ubuntu 20.04

Facebook's RocksDB database performs similar between WSL2 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS where as with the original WSL implementation the poor I/O performance led to miserable results.

Windows 10 WSL May 2020 vs. Ubuntu 20.04

Even using Git within WSL2 means a huge speed-up compared to WSL.


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