Speed comparison between mac/linux and windows

Rails
1

Hi,

I remember there was a period when there was a substantial performance
difference between windows and mac/linux. I experienced this
personally when I moved from rails 1.2 or so to a recent version on
windows (it became unbearably slow) and then switched to a mac when
the performance went back to ‘normal’ all with the same app.

I was wondering if anything has changed since then (2008) and if rails/
ruby is comparable performance wise on windows nowadays? A quick
search on the internet did not turn up anything past late 2008.

best
-Kaushik

2

I run a Rails development environment on both a Windows machine and a
Linux VM running on the same machine. (I actually use the Linux VM
100% of the time now for Rails).

The Linux VM is much faster - RSpec tests run 3 to 4 times faster, as
do all rake tasks (again, running on a VM on the Windows machine).
Nothing has changed since 2008.

As I’ve posted before, I see no reason to develop on Windows,
especially since you can get the VMWarePlayer and a Linux image for
free.

3

Hi,

On Jul 27, 7:47 pm, “E. Litwin” [email protected] wrote:

As I’ve posted before, I see no reason to develop on Windows,
especially since you can get the VMWarePlayer and a Linux image for
free.

I really should do this myself, but if you have any insight: does the
production environment run faster? Or is basically Rails still
annoyingly slow on windows?

best
-Kaushik

4

I have never run a production environment on Windows so I don’t have
hard numbers.

However, some basic testing of running my application in Windows vs
Linux does show that the Linux environment (hosted on a VM) serves up
the pages faster.

5

I was wondering if anything has changed since then (2008) and if rails/
ruby is comparable performance wise on windows nowadays? A quick
search on the internet did not turn up anything past late 2008.

It is still slower in windows, though less so if you use the mingw
builds of ruby.

=r