linux and java
Aaron T Porter (atporter@entropy.muc.muohio.edu)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:04:17 -0400 (EDT)
The latest InfoWorld has a big java article(1), including some
benchmarks(2). These benchmarks, while being quite silly, do show linux
as simply the fastest Java platform -- a p166/48meg ran the suite 2
seconds slower than the fastest platform, a ppro 180/64meg. The tests
used Netscape 3.02 on a Caldera system. My question is how would this
performance compare to kernel binary support? As a side note, why do
these tests always pit different OS's against each other on mis-matched
hardware? No duh NT on a ppro180 is going to beat win 3.1 on a 486/66.
Linux also blew away some decent sized Solaris boxen.
(1)http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/970915analysis.htm
(2)http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/970915sb7-bench1.htm