From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:23:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Git performance on OS X
Message-ID: <20080420012314.GS3133@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804191727270.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 05:31:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Maybe my CPU is faster too (2.66GHz Core 2), but the thing is, Linux 
> really does tend to outperform others at a lot of these kinds of loads. 
> System calls are fast to begin with, and the Linux directory cache kicks 
> ass, if I do say so myself.

Yes, Linux is really fast. Even with relatively old AMD Sempron 1.8 GHz,
I got the following numbers:
real    0m0.177s
real    0m0.154s

Dmitry