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From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Subject: Re: Performance of Linux and BSD
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 03:54:07 GMT
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randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) writes:
: I'm curious how the performance of BSD and Linux compare.  I already
: know that Linux is very small compared to BSD, and maybe that makes it
: faster.  On the other hand, maybe Linux is missing some performance
: tricks.  

Grin. Other way around. Maybe BSD is midding some performance tricks...
:)

BSD doesn't have shared lib's yet (as far as I know). This kinda kills
program startup time. Does it do demand pageing?? On the other hand, it
does have a much faster file system (which I am currently porting to
linux)

: Also, any other comment comparing the two would be helpful.
: 
: -Thanks
: -Randy

Michael