I finally got around to running my matrix multiply microbenchmarks on Windows as well as Mac. Here’s the summary of times on Mac OS X and Windows XP on the same Mac Book Pro.
| Mac OS X | Windows XP | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Java 1.5 | C | Java 1.6 | C |
| ms | ms | ms | ms |
| 22 | 11.2 | 12.2 | 12.7 |
(Though not a big table, I’m using it to test out support for HTML 4 (ca. 1999) table elements like THEAD.)