Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> The sense of this test is of course extremely questionable (what are
> they actually trying to compare there?).
>
> Christoph

Exactly what they state they are testing: the readiness of certain operating
systems for 64bitness "out of the box".  That is, no recompiling, no
additional software to make things work.  You can, of course get much
better performance under Linux by recompiling software to suit your tastes,
but that wasn't the point of the article.

....Chambers

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