Northern Michigan University: Students Benchmark Lots of Linux Kernels

May 10, 2001, 15:53 (7 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Randy Appleton)

Randy writes:

"Three students and a professor from Northern Michigan University benchmarked a bunch of Linux kernels, from 2.0.1 to 2.4.0 Many subsystems improved in performance, but some did not. Lines of code have tripled, and are on an exponential growth curve. Come see the results."

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