On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, russell aspinwall wrote: > The tests were repeated just to make sure. Unfortunately until > software is built and tested on Solaris 10, people tend to assume > Windows is faster. The above tests were completed with no virus > scanner installed as not to distort the results.
Your data is surely out of date. Windows itself inserts "anti-virus" type checking into your application as it runs. Windows executes your application slower with each new service pack update and more and more run-time safety checks are added. If you build your application with recent Visual Studio versions, then it may run vastly slower by default. Adobe developers found that debug versions of Photoshop became completely unusable due to all the added background checking. Much of the checking can be turned off, but it may require rebuilding the SDKs with a special define. There may be specialized areas where Windows does shine, but it is clearly not in application execution times. It is possible that someone will develop a Solaris-specific virus, but that seems unlikely. Windows is paying a high price for its policies. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
