Benchmarking compares WSL 3.0.2.0 (Linux 6.18.40.1) against WSL 2.6.3.0 (Linux 6.6.87.2) on an HP ProDesk with an Intel i5-8500T, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 (VBS active), running an Alpine Linux 3.23 minirootfs with Go 1.27.1. The VM was pinned to 2 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM. Microbenchmarks show modest syscall improvements (getppid throughput +3.98%, entry/exit latency -3.83%), substantial scheduler/IPC gains (100k ping-pong +12.7%, context-switch latency -11.25%, hackbench -10.06%), and a dramatic memory-bandwidth jump (glibc memcpy 1 GB: 7.84 → 12.64 GB/s, +61.35%).
Analysis attributes the bandwidth surge to larger page-reporting granularity (page_reporting.page_reporting_order=5) that reduces hypervisor traps and page-table overhead, and credits upstream 6.18 scheduler refinements plus tighter Hyper‑V VMBus handling for lower IPC latency. An end-to-end Go build (GoReleaser) ran ~3.9% faster in wall-clock (191.3s → 183.8s), with kernel time collapsing ~16% (~9s saved) while user CPU time barely moved. Practical takeaway: WSL3 materially speeds memory- and IPC-heavy workloads (in-memory DBs, socket-heavy microservices, container-heavy flows) while compute‑bound builds remain limited by pinned vCPU frequency/count even though syscall/kernel overhead is reduced.
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