Vista SP1 Showing Substantial Performance Boost for Some Systems
ZDnet blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has been seeing some substantial performance improvements out of Vista SP1. His testing so far relates mostly to the manipulation of files and folders (copying, moving, compressing, extracting, etc). Not all benchmarks are improvements, but some approach a near-doubling. This is good news.
He concludes from his testing...
OK, I was expecting to see some performance in all these areas, but I’m frankly astonished by some of the results I saw (so much so that I re-ran the tests just in case I’d made a mistake). For example, I really didn’t expect to see much performance gains when transferring files to a USB external hard drive, and to be honest I didn’t expect the speed of extracting multiple files from a compressed folder to be so much faster either.Credit where it’s due, Microsoft does seem to have eliminated a considerable number of Vista bottlenecks in SP1. Two words sum up how I feel - I’m impressed.
See his results, with charts, graphs, and actual numbers at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1299&tag=nl.e539. This is actually part 6 of a multi-part series, so I'm looking foward to hearing more as he learns it through his testing.
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