Can Ubuntu 9.10 Outperform Mac OS X 10.6?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Can Ubuntu 9.10 Outperform Mac OS X 10.6?

Back on Friday we published Mac OS X 10.6 benchmarks and found it to offer some terrific performance improvements, but at the same time, there were a few notable regressions. Apple engineers have been working hard at pushing technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), OpenCL, full 64-bit support, and other changes to their OS X stack to bolster its performance capabilities and reduce the overall footprint. Now that we have tested Mac OS X 10.6, we are seeing how its performance compares to that of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" will be out in October and does have some performance improvements as our earlier tests have shown, but Canonical engineers have not been exclusively focusing on performance optimizations with this release. Can the Karmic Koala outperform Snow Leopard? Yes and no.

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[thefirstm]

Phoronix: Can Ubuntu 9.10 Outperform Mac OS X 10.6?

I would say that is a "Yes." Ubuntu seem to have won more of the tests than it lost or tied.

[BlackStar]

Most of those tests would be better suite to the server variants of both Ubuntu and Mac OS.

Morever, since the comparison involves proprietary operating systems, it would be nice to throw in Windows results, too.

[kraftman]

About timed compilation tests. Like Kano mentioned - dependencies counts? If yes, what's the point? :> Btw. Ubuntu can outperform OS X easily and OS X can outperform Ubuntu - it matters what tests you'll show :> It seems there are some problems with ray-tracing. I wonder what can have influence on the results. GCC maybe?

[ethana2]

Morever, since the comparison involves proprietary operating systems, it would be nice to throw in Windows results, too.

When Windows becomes a unix, PTS will be ported within days. Until then, no. A benching app running on cygwin won't tell anybody anything.


It would have been nice to have the two most recent OS X versions here, since we had the two most recent Ubuntu versions.. but oh well.

[Michael]

When Windows becomes a unix, PTS will be ported within days. Until then, no. A benching app running on cygwin won't tell anybody anything.

Actually, as I have said before, if any individual or company will send me out a few Windows (7) systems at the least, I will work on porting PTS to Windows. But until then, there will be no Windows support, I have access to no Windows installations.

[WasabiVengeance]

I really wish phoronix would include ubu 8.10 in benchmark. Many people have refused to upgrade because of the intel graphics performance regression with 9.04 and 9.10.

[Apopas]

Actually, as I have said before, if any individual or company will send me out a few Windows (7) systems at the least, I will work on porting PTS to Windows. But until then, there will be no Windows support, I have access to no Windows installations.

If someone buys a laptop and doesn't want the preinstalled windows, is legal to give them?

[deanjo]

About timed compilation tests. Like Kano mentioned - dependencies counts? If yes, what's the point? :> Btw. Ubuntu can outperform OS X easily and OS X can outperform Ubuntu - it matters what tests you'll show :> It seems there are some problems with ray-tracing. I wonder what can have influence on the results. GCC maybe?

I suspect this is might be a factor more of usage of LLVM.

It would also be interesting to see what the results would be for C projects when compiled with clang.

[kraftman]

I suspect this is might be a factor more of usage of LLVM.

Yes, this is possible.

It would also be interesting to see what the results would be for C projects when compiled with clang.

Yep, I'm also interested.