Re: Linux vs WinXP performance

lvirden_at_yahoo.com
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: 6 Oct 2003 13:42:35 GMT

According to <lvirden@yahoo.com>:
:
:According to mitch <mitchu@houston.rr.com>:
:: (Should I
::recode the binary in "C" ? ...Oh God , please say no )
:
:C programs get compiled to binary - and in fact, in general, one wouldn't
:have a 'binary' to run unless it was written in C or some other compiled
:or semi-compiled language (C++, Java, etc.)
:
:So recoding isn't going to help.

well, let me reword - recoding the same algorithm simply to attempt to
change 'the binary' is probably not going to be a lot of help. Sometimes
the specific language used can make a difference - so recoding to
use a better compiled language might make a bit of difference. However,
your earlier postings talked about the cost of the exec itself, and from
_that_ perspective, changing to a different language won't help -
windows execing a pascal binary is probably going to be pretty similar
to windows execing a fortran, c, etc. language.

The program _itself_ may run faster though.

Try timing the cost of execing a program that immediately exits. That
will show you how much of your time is the exec and how much is the
program itself. 

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