Performance issue?!

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 22, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Marko Käning wrote:
> 
>> without knowing what your filter program does, it's not really possible to speculate.
> Hmmm, I guess so.
> 
>> 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.
> OK, if you say so…
> I thought that using gcc to build the program on Mac OS X as well as in the VM will lead to comparable code, but I understand from what you wrote that this is not necessarily the case. :-(

even if it did - the kernels you are running on are different and so any system calls you use are probably implemented differently.

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