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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Michael Larabel over at Phoronix has been testing [phoronix.com] the recently announced Ubuntu's user-space programs on Windows:

From the benchmarks carried out so far with Ubuntu on Windows 10, the performance is surprisingly quite good. The only big difference in performance based upon our initial tests seem to be in areas when dealing with file-system / disk performance: Redis, CompileBench, PHP compilation, and similar workloads were much slower than an actual Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation. When it comes to CPU bound workloads, the Windows 10 Linux subsystem kicked into gear and was delivering promising results for this developer feature that's currently only enabled to Windows Insider members. There were a few exceptions where the performance regressed like with the OpenMP-using GraphicsMagick, but overall the results ended up being better than anticipated.

The benchmarking took up several pages prior to that conclusion. RTFA if you want the specifics but the summary is pretty accurate.

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