Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In...
by zitterbewegung on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:13PM
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/ars-benchmarks-show-s... Compared to windows .
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Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In...
by Qwertious on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:25PM
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IIRC that benchmark is garbage, because the compiler they use was so old that Debian Stale had a newer version in their repos, when that article was first published.
Ah, here it is. From https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/3snvpc/steamo...
"took a quick peek at the latest Geekbench executable for Linux(3.3.2,) it was compiled with GCC 4.4.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 - a 5 and a half year old compiler. Windows version was compiled with MSVC 2012 update 4 released 2 years ago."
Take note: That ars article was done ~15 months ago (november 2015). In it, they used Ubuntu 10.04, which was released in April of 2010 (thus '10.04')! Steam wasn't even released on Linux, until nearly 3 years later, in 2013!
That article is so BS that you should ignore it outright. It's not even fit to be toilet paper.