Windows WSL Comparison Intel Core i7-7900X testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04: Processor: Intel Core i7-7900X @ 3.31GHz (20 Cores), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 224GB OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-43-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: WSLFS SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 199.20 |=========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 30830.34 |========================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 40994.54 |========================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 44342.26 |========================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 44315.54 |========================================= LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 44.73 |============================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 1350.60 |========================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 58.60 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 114.07 |=========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 7.12 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 4.99 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 10.08 |============================================ R Benchmark Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 0.8163 |=========================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffs nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 4.59 |============================================= glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: sqrt nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 18.59 |============================================ glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: tanh nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 127.96 |=========================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffsll nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 5.34 |============================================= glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: pthread_once nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 5.33 |============================================= libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 179.09 |=========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 2088.23 |========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 2299.97 |========================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 538899 |=========================================== Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 150.65 |===========================================