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For me, Firefox performs better on Linux than on Windows.

• nateb2022 3y ago
  This is true of a lot of things.
  • cpeterso 3y ago
    For example, Mozilla compiles Firefox’s official macOS and Windows builds on Linux because cross-compilation is faster and cheaper than compiling on macOS or Windows in the cloud.
  • chasil 3y ago
    Windows does not fork processes as fast as Linux, although this is improved somewhat in the in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here is a somewhat foolish test with a shell script, that forks "/bin/true" 10 million times. C:\>busybox sh ~ $ echo 'x=10000000; while [ $x -gt 0 ]; do true; x=$((x-1)); done' > timetest ~ $ time sh timetest real 0m 46.86s user 0m 46.76s sys 0m 0.04s Here is the same test with Debian's dash shell, one of the fastest: $ cat timetest x=10000000; while [ $x -gt 0 ]; do true; x=$((x-1)); done $ time dash timetest 0m33.79s real 0m33.50s user 0m0.05s system Not a great test, but there is quite a difference there.
• pjmlp 3y ago
  Until one needs to watch YouTube videos.