A Look At The Windows 10 October 2018 Update Performance With WSL
The bare metal Linux distributions were also faster with the MAFFT molecular biology benchmark while the April to October WSL performance was the same.
The x264 video encode performance under WSL remains on par with Linux itself.
WSL is much slower at compiling large code-bases due to the I/O bottleneck.
The Linux distributions had a small advantage with the Primesieve prime number benchmark.
The Node.js Octane benchmark on WSL wasn't too far behind Ubuntu 18.04 and Clear Linux.