Linux runs Java faster than Windows
Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 20 December 2008
Running Java benchmark tests on both Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux has shown that yet again, Vista came last.
The Successive Over Relaxation (SOR) test with Java SciMark also ran fastest on Ubuntu, as the test ran about 33 per cent faster under Linux than it did under Vista.
On the Monte Carlo test with Java SciMark, Vista was again blown out of the water, as the JVM was a whopping three times faster on Ubuntu.
Vista did come out on top in one test.
The question is if you want to run Java at all. So far, the software written in Java I've seen is slow and stresses the CPU. I avoid Java at any cost.