GNU/Linux vs. Windows as Python platform

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Fri May 18 13:44:40 EDT 2001


In article <aQcN6.3414$uk2.938477 at news1.rdc2.pa.home.com>,
Terry Reedy <reedy37 at home.com> wrote:
>"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>
>> One option that wasn't covered so far is the possibility of
>> running both Linux AND Windows together in the same box
>
>Actually, this is what I am considering either for my current box (with
>larger disk) or next box.  And my specific question is whether anyone with
>a dual boot box (or exactly matched boxes - same motherboard, CPU, disk,
>memory) has run a head to head comparison of Python programs run on one and
>then the other.  (I realize there are problems with disk-intensive programs
>due different location of the OS, etc., but comparison could still be
>interesting.)

I think Alex was talking about either VMware or one of the other
Linux-based Windoes emulators.
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