Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-08-02 Thread Peter Jones
I may have miss read the situation..this site also benchmarked OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva together. Should you not compare like with like and compare OS with say Apple a similar system? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-08-02 Thread John Martin
Anon Y Mous wrote: Everybody needs to check this out: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_atom_os&num=2 To put it mildly, OpenSolaris 2009.06 didn't just beat Ubuntu 9.04 in the Java 2D Microbenchmark test, this was total annihilation!!! 2009.06 performed at least twenty

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-07-28 Thread benoit
Some Istanbul vs Nehalem data can be found here : http://blogs.sun.com/MrBenchmark -benoit W. Wayne Liauh wrote: A few days ago, I upgraded one of my PCs at home to an AMD Quad, and I have noticed a similar surprise in performance differences between OpenSolaris and various Linux distros.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!

2009-07-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> (I have no intent of going > back to OpenSolaris at least for a while..) Waynel used to be the biggest OpenSolaris die-hard fan in these forums. Well maybe third biggest die-hard after Martin and Joerg, but Waynel actually used the official Sun sponsored "Indiana" OpenSolaris distribution wher

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!

2009-07-28 Thread Scott N.
> (I have no intent of going > back to OpenSolaris at least for a while..) > Did you typo and mean to say Ubuntu here? Because your text suggests you had slightly worse performance between Solaris & linux plus scalability concerns but then after it is negative towards linux chipset drivers an

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-07-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
A few days ago, I upgraded one of my PCs at home to an AMD Quad, and I have noticed a similar surprise in performance differences between OpenSolaris and various Linux distros. (I have no intent of going back to OpenSolaris at least for a while; the reason I did this was because I was unable to

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-07-28 Thread Sean McGrath
Scott N. stated: < Yeah, but it still gets destroyed in some other benchmarks, like this tidbit from the all important Suduku solving one... < < "Using Sudokut to simulate the Suoku solving performance, Ubuntu 9.04 was over twice as fast as OpenSolaris 2009.06" < < Since solving sudoku is what

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-07-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Since solving sudoku is what these kickass modern OS's are meant to do.. What ?!?! Ubuntu can solve Sudoku TWICE as fast? Somebody better get Larry Ellison on the phone real quick and tell him that he bought the wrong OS! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-07-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
This is another review of 2009.06 that was overall positive: http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=10250 Although I agree with what the reviewer says about the flash player being buggy (Adobe's fault though, I'm guessing). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-07-27 Thread Scott N.
Yeah, but it still gets destroyed in some other benchmarks, like this tidbit from the all important Suduku solving one... "Using Sudokut to simulate the Suoku solving performance, Ubuntu 9.04 was over twice as fast as OpenSolaris 2009.06" Since solving sudoku is what these kickass modern OS's a

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris graphics performance in Java 2D Microbenchmark beats Linux!!!

2009-07-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
Everybody needs to check this out: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_atom_os&num=2 To put it mildly, OpenSolaris 2009.06 didn't just beat Ubuntu 9.04 in the Java 2D Microbenchmark test, this was total annihilation!!! 2009.06 performed at least twenty times better than Ubu