Performance issue?!

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 22, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Marko Käning wrote:
> 
> Nevertheless I am a little taken aback, confused, dazed due to these unexpected numbers here.

without knowing what your filter program does, it's not really possible to speculate.

I'm sure there are plenty of things that run more quickly on linux (just as there are things that run more quickly on Mac OS X) - even if one or the other is in a VM.

> Any ideas as to what causes this?

you could probably use a profiler or sampler on both platforms to see where the time is being spent.

> Anyway, there is more to come… But I would like to hear your opinion on this topic first, before I dive into other results which are even more shocking. ;-)

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