I haven't yet benchmarked any flavour of Linux running natively on my current-gen Ivy Bridge 13" MacBook Pro, but I have compared Windows 7 to both System 10.7

I haven't yet benchmarked any flavour of Linux running natively on my current-gen Ivy Bridge 13" MacBook Pro, but I have compared Windows 7 to both System 10.7 and 10.8. Consistently Win7 out performs OS-X on "raw" math-heavy benchmarks. I've only uploaded my results form Geekbench-2, but the other benchmarking utils show similar numbers: Geekbench-2 Scores and [Results]: OS-X 10.8: 8743 [1] Windows 7: 10092 [2] Getting a Linux install to run via Bootcamp on this MBP is one of my next projects (most likely Gentoo), and I'm curious to see how well its performance stacks up against the other two. That is taking some time as... well, some things just don't work yet. (Thankfully I don't have to deal with the hybrid GPU setup that's in the Retina MBP.) 1: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/902437 2: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/810264