Sanity check for performance

Sanity check for performance

Posted Aug 17, 2005 16:58 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: Sun's Linux killer shows promise (Register)

Of course a lot of the software is common between Sun's product and our favorite distributions, so all those Sun developers working on userspace count for a lot. Much better that than having Sun waste its efforts on CDE.

But having an alternative, freely-licensed kernel means there's a great opportunity for Linux kernel hackers to get a performance sanity check. As long as you're automatically building and testing new versions of Linux to look for performance issues, why not do daily benchmarks vs. Solaris on the same hardware?

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