Berkeley Study: Ubuntu Linux faster then Mac OS X on Intel Dual Core

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Good news for Ubuntu setting new high standards for Mac OS X to try and acheive.

http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/macosx/

The computer being used is: Label OS and Chip OS X Core Duo Tiger (http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger) on MacBookpro (http://www.apple.com/macbookpro), Intel 2.16GHz Dual Core 2GB RAM Linux Core Duo Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/) Linux (Drapper Drake (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/dapperbeta?highlight=%28beta%29)) with i686-SMP kernel on MacBookpro, Intel 2.16GHz Dual Core 2GB RAM. Note: Xorg server running with GNOME (http://www.gnome.org/)

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/2996/anow1ms.th.jpg (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=anow1ms.jpg)

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7489/genmatch21780obs5te.th.png (http://img125.imageshack.us/my.php?image=genmatch21780obs5te.png)

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Study done by:

Jasjeet S. Sekhon
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/9946/sekhon5ja.th.jpg (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sekhon5ja.jpg)
Associate Professor
Travers Department of Political Science (http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/)
Survey Research Center (http://srcweb.berkeley.edu/)
UC Berkeley (http://www.berkeley.edu/)
sekhon@berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae (http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/SekhonCV.pdf)

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This is only a comparison of the OS X and GNU malloc functions.

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This is only a comparison of the OS X and GNU malloc functions.

exactly.