> There are still some I/O issues that the team is actively working on, but early benchmarks are quite promising.
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Hoping to run my R code on WSL 2. Glad I got the answer. I wish you guys well on I/O issues.
Is there any performance hit for WSL2 in regard to process forking? I recall that how window and unix deal with process is different (my R code uses mclapply parallel package for unix). I'm curious if there will be any performance hit that stands out versus running on a unix system for parallel/concurrency code.
On Reddit, they had a benchmark for WSL1 vs WSL2 and it showed that the Single core perf of WSL2 was sometimes better than Windows (and even bare metal linux - how that happened I am not sure). The multi-core was not as good, but still better than WSL1.
I can't find that exact thread right now, but here's another one comparing WSL with Windows:
I bet the windows hardware drivers for initialising caches, memory busses, power states, cooling etc. set certain systems up for slightly better performance.
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Hoping to run my R code on WSL 2. Glad I got the answer. I wish you guys well on I/O issues.
Is there any performance hit for WSL2 in regard to process forking? I recall that how window and unix deal with process is different (my R code uses mclapply parallel package for unix). I'm curious if there will be any performance hit that stands out versus running on a unix system for parallel/concurrency code.