Comment Java on Windows and Linux (Score 1) 954
I conducted my own tests pitting Java 1.4 against gcc 3.3 and icc 8.0 using his benchmark code, and found Java to perform significantly worse than C on Linux/Athlon.
From my experience Windows has always had the edge on the Java VM. But this could all be coming to a change:
Red Hat Linux 9 and Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4.2: A Winning Combination
A quote from the article states
"Internal tests reveal that performance of NPTL with a client/server application has been impressive. On a 2 X 1.6 Ghz P4 Xeon system, time to completion was 191% faster with J2SE 1.4.2 running on NPTL, compared with J2SE 1.41 running on the original Linux threads."
From my experience Windows has always had the edge on the Java VM. But this could all be coming to a change:
Red Hat Linux 9 and Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4.2: A Winning Combination
A quote from the article states
"Internal tests reveal that performance of NPTL with a client/server application has been impressive. On a 2 X 1.6 Ghz P4 Xeon system, time to completion was 191% faster with J2SE 1.4.2 running on NPTL, compared with J2SE 1.41 running on the original Linux threads."
