I suspect that’s an OS issue. Linux is simply more optimized and faster at equivalent OS stuff.
Which isn’t too surprising given a lot of the biggest companies in the world have been optimizing the hell out of it for their servers for the last 25+ years.
On the flipside of the coin though Apple also clearly optimizes their OS for power efficiency. Which is likely paying some good dividends.
For sure, the networking is on the OS level because in both I’m using the tcp stack provided by the OS. (Also GUI in Linux has less transitions and feels snappier in general.)
The remainder can be attributed to compiler optimisations or lack thereof.
Which isn’t too surprising given a lot of the biggest companies in the world have been optimizing the hell out of it for their servers for the last 25+ years.
On the flipside of the coin though Apple also clearly optimizes their OS for power efficiency. Which is likely paying some good dividends.