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

On Nov 27, 2007 8:05 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> On 11/27/07 19:35, Greg Smith wrote:
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> > to you.  The minute performance becomes a serious concern, you'd be much
> > better off with Linux, one of the BSDs that's not hobbled by using the
> > Mach kernel, or one of the more serious UNIXes like Solaris.
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> Wasn't there a time (2 years ago?) when PG ran pretty dog-like on SPARC?

Only under Solaris.  With Linux or BSD on it it ran pretty well.  I
had a Sparc 20 running RH 7.2 back in the day (or whatever the last
version of RH that ran on sparc was) that spanked an Ultra-2 running
slowalrus with twice the memory and hard drives handily.

Solaris has gotten much better since then, I'm sure.