Check out http://members.tripod.com/~slinkP/pw_linux/csbench.html. According
to this, times between Windows and Linux on comparable processors are
comparable. Measurements are better than anecdotes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Costello 
To: Christian Guirreri 
Cc: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk 
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: WinCSound performance


>Christian Guirreri wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if there is any information about WinCSound performance
>> compared to other OS's, particularly the Power Mac version.  I run CSound
>> on a Power Mac at school with 32MB RAM and it appears to be much faster
>> than my Win98-based, PII-266, 128MB RAM, all SCSI system at home.  We
have
>> version 3.92 at school and I'm running 3.93 at home.  The orc+sco I'm
using
>> has 8 instruments, one of which uses a 500K sample loaded in an ftable,
and
>> the work is about 5:00 long.  Compiling at home is nearly twice longer
than
>> it is at school.  I'm wondering if others have seen similar results (kind
>> of difficult considering we all have different computers), and if there
are
>> any performance tips and tweaks.
>
>I don't have any specific performance figures, but I can back up your
>observations about Csound running in Win 98.  I have a dual boot Win
>98/Linux machine, with a Pentium II running at 300 MHz.  Performance of
>Csound is at least 3 times faster (from my observations) in Linux than
>in Win 98.  From my knowledge of operating system internals, I believe
>this speed difference is due to the fact that Windows 98 is spawned from
>the loins of the devil.
>
>Sean Costello