Quote Originally Posted by Ynot View Post
hmmm....

You do know the mainline Linux kernel can take advantage of many, many thousands of CPU's

see here
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7313

You think OS X beats this....

SMP & NUMA are server technologies (which have only recently hit the desktop)
Darwin is UNIX, so it has all the features of UNIX. The only difference is that Darwin was written specifically for multicore computers, I don't even think it will run on a one core machine. It's not as flexible as the Linux kernel because Macs have a most 32 cores. Linux would beat it at the super computer level with hundreds and hundreds of cores, but at the average level, OSX and Linux are about the same.

Oops, I meant to say that Linux has better memory management Linux outperforms OSX when it comes to memory allocation and management, but once the memory is allocated, OSX outperforms Linux because of it's thread and process management.

Also, starting with 10.6, OSX will use OpenCL and push large chunks of it's floating point calculations out to the graphics cards.