[Mono-list] Fwd: Re: SciMark2 benchmark in F#

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 January 2009 22:05:23 Alan McGovern wrote:
> > Taking a slightly more detailed view tells us a few more interesting
> > things. Compare mono 2.0 (windows) to mono 2.0 (opensuse). The exact same
> > version of mono ranges between 1.5x faster on linux (LU arrays) to 1.5x
> > slower on linux (SPARSE). What this tells us is that there appears to be
> > differences in the platform itself which make a difference
> > performance-wise.
>
> I don't understand how a tight numerical loop could have such different
> performance characteristics between platforms?!
>
>
Mono features a lot of platform specific optimizations. Windows is not one
were
many of them have been implemented.
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