MacOS 10.12.6 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 Linux MacBook Air

Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article.

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MacOS 10.12.6 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 Linux MacBook Air, "BlogBench 1.0 - Test: Read", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",181484,196727,183214,181170,180833,190215 "macOS 10.13",260170,256167,224902,253136,235545,224136 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",195333,234298,241873,254686,239987,244994 "BlogBench 1.0 - Test: Write", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",1287,1277,1254 "macOS 10.13",962,974,1018 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",2767,2946,2941 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",97.946,97.885,97.857 "macOS 10.13",97.863,97.91,97.859 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",75.993,84.475,87.305,89.698,89.573,90.468 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",250.86,248.1,250.06 "macOS 10.13",308.63,307.84,310.47 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",326.22,344.71,340.49 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",56.14,56.21,56.58 "macOS 10.13",45.63,46.36,46.56 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",183.66,185.2,181.8 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",89.44,88.14,89.57 "macOS 10.13",195.58,197,196.94 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",498.48,476.37,485.23 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",12.009645938873,11.519019126892,11.480149030685,11.538419961929,11.444984912872 "macOS 10.13",12.008714914322,11.508672952652,11.543506860733,11.477691173553,11.485448122025 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",9.2546620368958,8.6533250808716,8.6724779605865,8.9766809940338,9.3158719539642 "Java 2D Microbenchmark 1.0 - Rendering Test: Text Rendering", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",9954.5467741505,9976.7408840769,9989.2300794087,9997.0951889908 "macOS 10.13",9790.8181474671,9904.6250796285,9935.8812526585,9705.7377012886 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",10115.149335931,9965.9013310539,10172.475157859,10122.325781406 "Java 2D Microbenchmark 1.0 - Rendering Test: Image Rendering", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",1446233.9808126,1394448.9393227,1428845.4105577,1434848.007291 "macOS 10.13",1319349.0670405,1387907.3451868,1434849.2531621,1459497.0024112,1465951.9394324,1467180.0922184,1462876.095509,1457982.0244592 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",1160992.126044,875724.13979541,872259.2526247,860089.7676763,873326.78658445,871393.98363862,862181.34811449,869432.01529834 "Java 2D Microbenchmark 1.0 - Rendering Test: All Rendering Tests", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",1056620.3005211,1074921.1869831,1077186.1784724,1079254.9126073 "macOS 10.13",1068859.3711571,1079891.7835417,1069656.3420634,1067495.0326949 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",679697.84149695,658616.38385948,655863.86483248,672665.89533912 "Java 2D Microbenchmark 1.0 - Rendering Test: Vector Graphics Rendering", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",968431.0875033,970465.22586094,972997.10720081,970174.31540802 "macOS 10.13",934519.65574446,962264.32386877,971222.50892671,974331.75383332 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",629301.85714362,591412.79232871,583562.24855137,577381.17730569,635146.56633076,620373.66179474,617263.06388092,599587.28960807 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",16.196407079697,16.174029111862,16.239950895309,16.126662969589,16.161885023117 "macOS 10.13",16.252222061157,16.224383115768,16.188968896866,16.314176082611,16.250160217285 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",17.45406293869,16.677068948746,17.306130170822,17.201064109802,17.635745048523 "Nexuiz 2.5.2 - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",33.1588182,31.9843957,32.9806823 "macOS 10.13",31.8251145,32.4952889,32.3791344 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",46.4029071,31.2267644,24.7232983,17.6163,18.3151149,17.8788237 "OpenSSL 1.0.1g - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",45,44.9,45 "macOS 10.13",44.9,45.1,45.1 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",193,108.9,108.9,109,108.8,109 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",1329,1336,1344 "macOS 10.13",1612,1644,1655 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",2604,2631,2659 "Primesieve 5.4.2 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation", Lower Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",498.162,497.125,497.029 "macOS 10.13",498.817,498.168,498.11 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",342.37,354.728,351.635 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",411.66,411.55,415.21,413.9 "macOS 10.13",403.3,411.54,413.81,408.25 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",392.8,391.49,388.2,391.18 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",85.01,85.14,85.48,84.64 "macOS 10.13",84.17,83.51,84.63,85.02 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",88.06,88.3,86.17,88.28 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",108.07,105.29,107.92,106.4 "macOS 10.13",104.42,107.45,106.33,106.29 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",118.69,120.69,119.47,117.83 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",485.78,491.13,487.47,495.45 "macOS 10.13",482.06,485.57,487.25,485.51 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",429.54,431.15,431.92,429.59 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",618.16,620.52,622.99,618.48 "macOS 10.13",615.8,625.49,625.8,597.6 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",554.36,551.39,549.83,554.32 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",761.3,755.67,772.19,764.54 "macOS 10.13",730.06,755.66,765.03,766.83 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",773.34,765.93,753.59,765.89 "SQLite 3.8.10.2 - Test Target: Default Test Directory", Lower Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",32.872359991074,22.637166023254,27.125365972519,27.434830188751,30.808923959732,26.881543159485 "macOS 10.13",10.407067060471,10.480129957199,10.540422916412 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",32.725158929825,29.280476093292,29.358093976974,28.792232036591,28.838425159454,28.812805891037 "Stockfish 2014-11-26 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",5266,5151,5194 "macOS 10.13",5227,5199,5204 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",4930,4910,4938 "Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 - Global Illumination + Image Synthesis", Lower Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",7.894,7.87 "macOS 10.13",7.862,7.859 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",7.616,8.569,8.977,8.764 "TSCP 1.81 - AI Chess Performance", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",894120,922576,910376,925677,925677 "macOS 10.13",925677,895573,898495,914913,928799 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",134107,133070,132877,135293,133683 "Xonotic 0.8.2 - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",68.9147425,68.8794129,69.8240806 "macOS 10.13",61.4226114,63.4190681,64.3792019 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",29.3814359,29.281581,29.6085814 "Xonotic 0.8.2 - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High", Higher Results Are Better "macOS 10.12.6",45.6402201,46.8925565,47.0925737 "macOS 10.13",42.8446367,44.9641973,43.6277938 "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS",22.8298449,22.8653702,22.7587153