Which Operating System performs better to manipulate thousands of files at a time?

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  • sathiasiva

    Which Operating System performs better to manipulate thousands of files at a time?

    i want to convert a txt file xml and in turn i have to convert them into HTML. A single txt file contains upto 75000 files. i have to split them and convert them into 75,000 xml and 75,000 HTML files. At a time i may have to process hundreds of texxt files. For this which os is better? whether UNIX/WINDOWS...
  • ashitpro
    Recognized Expert Contributor
    • Aug 2007
    • 542

    #2
    I'll prefer UNIX.
    You'll get better results, if you are writing you application in multi-threaded way.

    This is very general question to be specific with an answer. I'll suggest writing an application and try it on both OS for say 100 files first. Put some time measure to get the execution time.

    I usually work with cross platforms, I build/run few frameworks on windows as well as linux. These are basically test case automation frameworks.

    It always finishes its execution on linux/unix as compare to windows in really considerable time difference.

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    • Mariostg
      Contributor
      • Sep 2010
      • 332

      #3
      Which ever OS you pick, it will also depend on the file system you use. Some file systems performs better on larger file while other performs better on small files.

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