[Rails] Does Rails perform better-or-worse on different O.S.? Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris in particular

[Alexey Verkhovsky]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:53 -0700, Miles Keaton wrote:
> We're at a point where we could choose any O.S. for a soon-to-be
> launched Rails app server, and are feeling pretty neutral about it.
> 
> The choices are Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
> 
> Since Rails will be running everything, I'm wondering if anyone has
> seen significantly better (or worse) performance in any of these O.S.
> in Rails in particular?

Sorry for an irrelevant answer, but I can't help noticing that moving
from Windows 2000 to Gentoo Linux made Instiki unit tests three times
faster on the same PC. 

I wish I could explain it. Is "gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe" that much
better than whatever One Click Installer does to compile Ruby???

Best regards,
Alex Verkhovsky