[Cialug] Apple's G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux

[Chris Hilton]

I read that article, it was pretty good (actually criticized something
and offered a technical explanation instead of:  "We're journalists, we
click things").

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 22:14 -0500, Alan Maupin wrote:
> June 3rd, 2005 – interesting performance comparison article in light
> of the news of Apple & Intel coming together.
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> “Mac OS X is incredibly slow, between 2 and 5(!) times slower, in
> creating new threads, as it doesn't use kernel threads, and has to go
> through extra layers (wrappers). No need to continue our search: the
> G5 might not be the fastest integer CPU on earth - its database
> performance is completely crippled by an asthmatic operating system
> that needs up to 5 times more time to handle and create threads.”
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> http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436
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