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Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja
Exactly. And the OS/X VM is 32 bit also, FYI.
You have to be really careful when constructing tests like this as you can run the same source code through two different compilers and end up with different machine code. It's possible that OS/X takes better advantage of certain processor features, but I'd take some convincing. I did try checking out the web site to see if there was more nuts-and-bolts information about the benchmarks, but the information is sparse, other than a blog page that appears to be exclusively Mac oriented. You really want a product like this to be open source.
Besides, this benchmark is so narrow in scope, I'm not sure how it translates to real-world end-user differences in speed.
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Unfortunately, there aren't many cross-platform benchmarking tools out there.
The good news about GeekBench is that it's been out for a couple years and is updated regularly. Also, a look at their overall top results shows rather equal PC and Mac representation:
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/top
Edit: Here's their Twitter account, which has some interesting tweets. There's even one from a Microsoft SQL Server MVP who says that it's very useful for preparing for transaction processing workloads in Windows Server.
Edit: Whoops, forgot the link:
http://twitter.com/primatelabs