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Face off part two: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
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| Firstly, Firefox 3 clearly handles memory the same way irrespective of
| platform and demonstrates the same pattern on both Windows and Linux.
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| More significantly though, Internet Explorer’s memory usage is clearly a
| matter of its own devising. It is not a feature of Windows Vista that results
| in a missing 400MB. If it were this ought to be the case with Firefox.
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| This graph visually depicts Pavlov's results with these three browsers
| running on Windows Vista and their memory usage over time.
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| I believe the results are crystal clear. Linux behaves with a stability that
| Microsoft Windows cannot reproduce. It performs admirably under differing
| amounts of available RAM and it makes best use of RAM before turning to
| slower disk drives. The default web browser under Windows – Internet
| Explorer – visibly takes up ever increasing amounts of memory without
| releasing it. This is in sharp contrast with the default web browser under
| Linux – Firefox – which maintains a reasonably flat level of memory usage and
| then relinquishes it when terminating.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19664/1141/1/2/
The latest Microsoft Office is very obese as well.
Recent:
Benchmarking Microsoft Word 95 through Word 2007
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| Despite all the tweaks, tricks, hacks, and clever engineering, Microsoft's
| latest version of Word is a step back in performance. That's generally true
| of every new major release of any software. That's Wirth's Law. When Windows
| 95 came out, people joking exaggeratedly that "95" was the number of floppies
| Windows 95 shipped on. Though Windows 95 actually shipped on many fewer
| floppies, the point is that Windows 95 was a huge, slower beast compared to
| its predecessors. (Does anyone remember Windows 3.1, OS/2 Warp, and
| DESQview?) There were similar complaints for XP, and Vista's performance was
| the subject of the infamous "Vista Capable" class action lawsuit against
| Microsoft.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/07/benchmarking-microsoft-word-95-2007.html
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