Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

From: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Niedzielski <min(at)epictechnologies(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance
Date: 2007-11-12 22:03:55
Message-ID: 230DE264-6E9A-4E3A-BCD5-D2D44559F921@kcilink.com
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On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> Not the Mac OS BSD. Last time I looked into this OS X was still
> dramatically slower than Linux on things like process creation.

On MacOS X, that's the Mach kernel doing process creation, not
anything BSD-ish at all. The BSD flavor of MacOS X is mostly just the
userland experience.

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