Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Comparing Linux and Minix
>
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>| 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.
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> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/220255/2031d5ff96d848d5/
Minix is GPLed now, I think - perhaps there'd be some margin in
tightening things up? On the other hand, there is now so much software
available for linux distros, I wonder if it is worth working on anything
else?
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