Windows Subsystem For Linux Performance At The End Of 2019

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 11 December 2019 at 11:32 AM EST. Page 3 of 6. 11 Comments.
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks

In pure CPU bound workloads, WSL/WSL2 can generally perform well and deliver comparable results to bare metal Linux.

Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks

The Golang performance can be faster under WSL than Windows itself, except for HTTP performance taking a hit from Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks
Ubuntu, Windows 10, WSL, WSL2 Benchmarks

Windows 10 19008 seems to be offering faster performance with Java than Windows 10 18362 even when using the same OpenJDK build. As for the WSL performance with Java, the results were quite mixed.


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