Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39

sfcrazy writes "While we were thinking that the announcement of 3.x branch was nothing more than Linus' mood swing, it seems there is more to it. Linus wrote on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, '3.0 will still be noticeably faster than 2.6.39 due to the other changes made (ie the read-ahead), so yes, the regression itself is fixed.'"

Faster?

[ZombieBraintrust]

What does faster mean? What will be faster? Are they talking huge Linux servers or Linux Desktops? Latency? User Interface?

Copypasta

[Gothmolly]

Nice way to be a simple news aggregator, Slashdotitors. Is Roland Piquipaille on your staff?

Re:Faster?

[TarMil]

Well, the subject of the news is the kernel, not the rest of the OS.

Re:Windows 8

[Annirak]

Windows Vista was slower than Windows XP.

You win some, you lose some.

Re:prefetch()

[Annirak]

If this is the case, wouldn't CONFIG_USE_PREFETCH be a better solution?

Re:Windows 8

[aeoo]

On shitty hardware, yes.

When you compare two versions of the same operating system to determine which version is faster, you always use the exact same hardware configuration for both.

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