Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> Comparing Linux and Minix
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The UnixBench results (raw results: Minix, Linux) paint a rather
> | different picture. These results are summarized in the plot to the
> | left; the upper bar for each test represents Linux. The measured
> | system call overhead for Minix is a full ten times higher than
> | the value for Linux. The file copy tests ran between two and ten
> | times faster on Linux. Pipe throughput differed by a factor of
> | seven; Minix was 140 times slower at process creation. The
> | difference in shell script execution performance, however, was
> | 1.4 - in Minix's favor. One assumes that the rather simple shell
> | provided by Minix is, at least, faster than bash.
> `----
So. presumably... running the same benchmarks using the same shell would
perhaps be in order? If minix IS GPL now, the shell it uses should be
compilable to run on linux with minimal alteration, shouldn't it?
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