Why is MySQL nearly twice as fast on Linux?

[Petri Helenius]

Thomas Hurst wrote:

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>Only if you're only using one table.  While this is true in this
>benchmark, it isn't really relevent because we're only testing selects,
>which are pure reads.  There should be no table locking getting in the
>way; Linux's performance would seem to confirm this.
>
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I changed the test to use InnoDB table type and saw 50% performance 
improvement.

Pete