From: Ellen K. 

Great post!    :)

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:27:53 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:cvh7n19b0h8ur1it818qqhie5vrgkclnuq{at}4ax.com...
>> "For example, they show the number of CPU cycles needed to
"create and
>> start a process" as 1,032,000 for FreeBSD, 719,000 for Linux, and
>> 5,376,000 for Windows/XP."
>>
>> Wow.
>
>So for a pretty basic 2GHz processor that would be 0.0025 or so seconds for
>Windows and 0.00035 seconds for Linux. Ok, so Linux beats Windows by 0.00215
>seconds. That means, that if I fire, let's say 1000 processes a day, I would
>gain 2.15 seconds a day! Now if it takes me about 3 months to learn Linux
>well enough to start using it, that means that only after 6605.93 years I'm
>already saving time! Wopeeeee!!!
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>(in case you missed it, I was somewhat trying to point out the "so
what"
>factor of the cpu cycle counts. Really, so what?)
>
>
>

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