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Not very objective, since the operating systems were in unknown state, i.e. there was a third party antivirus installed on one Windows machine. In such conditio
by self_awareness 9y ago
Not very objective, since the operating systems were in unknown state, i.e. there was a third party antivirus installed on one Windows machine. In such conditions this benchmark doesn't provide any meaningful information.
- humanrebar 9y agoDepends on what the measurement is for. If you want to help developers pick a faster development setup, you want something realistic.
- vardump 9y agoI find the article very informative from point of view of developing software packages installable by the end user. Benchmarking typical environments vs artificially lean is much more helpful in practice.
- mbitsnbites 9y agoI didn't think that these benchmarks would get this much attention. I personally made them because I could not believe that identical Windows and Linux machines were performing so different in typical software development tasks (Git, CMake, GCC, file copying, ...). I threw in a few more machines (Raspberry, Mac, ...) into the mix to get some perspective. Most machines were stock configured (Ubuntu ext4 install for Linux, Windows 10 w/ Windows Defender, macOS X stock install, etc), so I believe that they should be representative for average users. The benchmark suite is open source and easy to run on your own hardware if you like to get more accurate/representative figures for a particular setup.