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According to your website pretty much every other technology runs better on Linux than it does on Windows, and of course pyparallel runs better than everything you tested.

How can I run these tests my self? I specifically want to test it against golang.

Comment · 10 years ago

No it's not, it didn't get popular until it was redesigned. It's proof that sites can be too ugly, but that sites don't have to be particularly pretty.

Comment · 10 years ago

>the NT kernel is much more sophisticated and powerful than Linux

Source?

It's not sophisticated enough or powerful enough to be the most used kernel on super computers (and in the world). Windows pretty much only dominates the desktop market. Servers, super computers, mainframes, etc, mostly use Linux.

A few years ago there was even a bug in Windows that caused degradation in network performance during multimedia playback that was directly connected with mechanisms employed by the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS), this is used on a lot of audio setups. If they can't even get audio setups right how can people consider anything Windows releases "sophisticated"?

It's made to do anything you throw at it I guess, it's definitely complicated, but powerful and sophisticated aren't words I would use to describe NT.

Comment · 10 years ago

Well I've personally seen Microsoft employees themselves complaining about the state of NT while saying it's "fallen behind Linux".

An old HN commenter once wrote (mrb)

> There is not much discussion about Windows internals, not only because they are not shared, but also because quite frankly the Windows kernel evolves slower than the Linux kernel in terms of new algorithms implemented. For example it is almost certain that Microsoft never tested I/O schedulers, process schedulers, filesystem optimizations, TCP/IP stack tweaks for wireless networks, etc, as much as the Linux community did. One can tell just by seeing the sheer amount of intense competition and interest amongst Linux kernel developers to research all these areas.

>The net result of that is a generally acknowledged fact that Windows is slower than Linux when running complex workloads that push network/disk/cpu scheduling to its limit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3368771 A really concrete and technical example is the network throughput in Windows Vista which is degraded when playing audio! https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2007/08/...

>Note: my post may sound I am freely bashing Windows, but I am not. This is the cold hard truth. Countless of multi-platform developers will attest to this, me included. I can't even remember the number of times I have written a multi-platform program in C or Java that always runs slower on Windows than on Linux, across dozens of different versions of Windows and Linux. The last time I troubleshooted a Windows performance issue, I found out it was the MFT of an NTFS filesystem was being fragmented; this to say I am generally regarded as the one guy in the company who can troubleshoot any issue, yet I acknowledge I can almost never get Windows to perform as good as, or better than Linux, when there is a performance discrepancy in the first place.

Comment · 10 years ago

Can you show me the source so I can check?

Comment · 10 years ago

I use to run Linux in a VM on windows and use Chocolatey for package management and cygwin and powershell etc, then I realized I was just trying to make Windows into Linux. Seems to be the way things are going and with the addition of the linux subsystem it kind of proves that Windows really isn't a good OS on it's own, especially not for developers.

I wish Windows/MS would abandon NT and just create a Linux distro. I don't know anyone who particularly likes NT and jamming multiple systems together seems like an awful idea.

Windows services and Linux services likely won't play nice together (think long file paths created by Linux services and other incompatibilities), for them to be 100% backward compatible they need to not only make Windows compatible with the things Linux outputs, but Linux compatible with the things windows services output, and to keep the Linux people from figuring out how to use Windows on Linux systems they'd need to make a lot of what they do closed source.

So I don't see a Linux+Windows setup being deployed for production. It's cool for developers, but even then you can't do much real world stuff that utilizes both windows and Linux. If you're only taking advantage of one system then whats the point of having two?

I went ahead and made the switch to Linux since I was trying to make Windows behave just like Linux.

Comment · 10 years ago

I wonder how a "perfect" society would devise a system to keep search engines and other service providers from creating monopolies? I imagine they would force people to use different software based on region or something. It would be nice if instead of having a mass spying apparatus we had a mass bug tracking apparatus and mandated open source, emphasized programming and hacking like we do sports, and gave people large rewards and fame for finding bugs in our software.

I imagine we'll be in a society soon (next 100 years) where we 3D print all of our own food and most of our stuff, which means it will likely be downloaded from some remote database. If the global food database were to be hacked we could see mass poisonings. I don't trust security through obscurity in these cases and wouldn't eat food if I couldn't view the ingredients.

The FBI/NSA/CIAs purpose is to keep people insecure so that they can spy on them. This is the opposite of what we need.