OS X 10.11 El Capitan vs. Fedora 23 Linux Performance

In some of the CPU bound tests, there was little difference in performance between OS X 10.11 and Fedora 23. GCC vs. Clang also didn't spell much of a difference in some of these tests.

Linux was much faster when running the Himeno scientific workload than under Apple's operating system. GCC 5.1.1 was also doing better than Clang 3.7.0.

Clang continues to have the fastest compile times... on Linux.

Clang as shipped by Fedora 23 and Xcode on OS X 10.11.1 doesn't ship with OpenMP support.

Again, stay tuned for more tests to come on Phoronix with potentially other Linux distributions and an expanded arsenal of OS X vs. Linux tests. If you found today's updated numbers interesting, consider joining Phoronix Premium with our holiday deal to support the site while enjoying ad-free articles, multi-page articles on a single page, and ensuring more tests like this are carried out going forward.

For some tests from earlier in the year you can see OS X 10.10 vs. Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Fedora 21.