georgia_tech_swagger
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<a href='http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436' target='_blank'>http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436</a>
I knew from using them Apple computers did not have near the oomph, even when 150% the cost of a comparable PC... but I didn't realize it was nearly two to FIVE times slower at basic system tasks than a PC :eek: :eek: :eek:
Quote:The server performance of the Apple platform is, however, catastrophic. When we asked Apple for a reaction, they told us that some database vendors, Sybase and Oracle, have found a way around the threading problems. We'll try Sybase later, but frankly, we are very sceptical. The whole "multi-threaded Mach microkernel trapped inside a monolithic FreeBSD cocoon with several threading wrappers and coarse-grained threading access to the kernel", with a "backwards compatibility" millstone around its neck sounds like a bad fusion recipe for performance.
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06-03-2005 08:37 PM |
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