Windows 10 WSL Comparison - Ubuntu Fedora Intel Core i7-7900X testing on openSUSE Leap 42.2 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 Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-7900X @ 3.31GHz (20 Cores), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 224GB OS: openSUSE Leap 42.2, Kernel: 4.4.0-43-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: WSLFS Scikit-Learn 0.17.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 150.65 |=========================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 548197 |========================================== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 538899 |========================================= 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 |========================================= Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 2131.94 |====================================== 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 |========================================= Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 1862.42 |===================================== libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1 Test: Decompression Throughput Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 182.44 |========================================== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 179.09 |========================================= glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: pthread_once nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 5.33 |============================================ Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 5.34 |============================================ glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffsll nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 4.65 |====================================== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 5.34 |============================================ glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: tanh nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 43.60 |============== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 127.96 |========================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: sqrt nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 12.84 |============================== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 18.59 |=========================================== glibc bench 1.0 Benchmark: ffs nanoseconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 4.59 |=========================================== Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 4.71 |============================================ R Benchmark Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 0.8163 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 10.08 |======================================= Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 11.03 |=========================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 4.99 |==================================== Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 6.04 |============================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 6.94 |=========================================== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 7.12 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 114.07 |========================================= Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 116.34 |========================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 49.16 |==================================== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 58.60 |=========================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 2228.73 |========================================= Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 1350.60 |========================= LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 . 44.73 |============================================ Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 44315.54 |======================================== Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 42879.40 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 44342.26 |======================================== Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 42932.36 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 40994.54 |======================================== Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 39466.70 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 38486.62 |======================================== Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 30830.34 |================================ SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Windows WSL: Ubuntu 16.04 .. 199.20 |========================================== Windows WSL: openSUSE 42.2 . 201.15 |==========================================