Hi, I remember there was a period when there was a substantial performance difference between windows and mac/linux. I experienced this personally when I moved from rails 1.2 or so to a recent version on windows (it became unbearably slow) and then switched to a mac when the performance went back to ''normal'' all with the same app. I was wondering if anything has changed since then (2008) and if rails/ ruby is comparable performance wise on windows nowadays? A quick search on the internet did not turn up anything past late 2008. best -Kaushik
I run a Rails development environment on both a Windows machine and a Linux VM running on the same machine. (I actually use the Linux VM 100% of the time now for Rails). The Linux VM is much faster - RSpec tests run 3 to 4 times faster, as do all rake tasks (again, running on a VM on the Windows machine). Nothing has changed since 2008. As I''ve posted before, I see no reason to develop on Windows, especially since you can get the VMWarePlayer and a Linux image for free. On Jul 27, 9:49 am, kghose <kaushik.gh...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hi, > > I remember there was a period when there was a substantial performance > difference between windows and mac/linux. I experienced this > personally when I moved from rails 1.2 or so to a recent version on > windows (it became unbearably slow) and then switched to a mac when > the performance went back to ''normal'' all with the same app. > > I was wondering if anything has changed since then (2008) and if rails/ > ruby is comparable performance wise on windows nowadays? A quick > search on the internet did not turn up anything past late 2008. > > best > -Kaushik
Hi, On Jul 27, 7:47 pm, "E. Litwin" <elit...-ur4TIblo6goN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> As I''ve posted before, I see no reason to develop on Windows, > especially since you can get the VMWarePlayer and a Linux image for > free. >I really should do this myself, but if you have any insight: does the production environment run faster? Or is basically Rails still annoyingly slow on windows? best -Kaushik
I have never run a production environment on Windows so I don''t have hard numbers. However, some basic testing of running my application in Windows vs Linux does show that the Linux environment (hosted on a VM) serves up the pages faster. On Jul 28, 8:33 am, Kaushik Ghose <kaushik.gh...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hi, > > On Jul 27, 7:47 pm, "E. Litwin" <elit...-ur4TIblo6goN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > As I''ve posted before, I see no reason to develop on Windows, > > especially since you can get the VMWarePlayer and a Linux image for > > free. > > I really should do this myself, but if you have any insight: does the > production environment run faster? Or is basically Rails still > annoyingly slow on windows? > > best > -Kaushik
> I was wondering if anything has changed since then (2008) and if rails/ > ruby is comparable performance wise on windows nowadays? A quick > search on the internet did not turn up anything past late 2008.It is still slower in windows, though less so if you use the mingw builds of ruby. http://programming-gone-awry.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruby-19-one-click-installer.html =r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.