Re: Linux on PA/RISC

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:20:19 +0100 (BST)


> I'd be very interested to see how linux benchmarks against hpux.

Running a Mach based Linux over the OSF mach3 as they are doing (derived
from the powermac mach/osf) won't give you meaningful numbers. A sun3 BSD
outperforms linux/mach3 on a PowerMac for syscall latency, native pmac
numbers are much saner.

Alan