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Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>

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From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: Mark Niedzielski <min@epictechnologies.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-11-12T22:03:55Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> Not the Mac OS BSD.  Last time I looked into this OS X was still  
> dramatically slower than Linux on things like process creation.

On MacOS X, that's the Mach kernel doing process creation, not  
anything BSD-ish at all.  The BSD flavor of MacOS X is mostly just the  
userland experience.