Windows 10 May 2020 Performance For WSL vs. WSL2
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 17 June 2020 at 11:39 AM EDT. Page 6 of 8. 40 Comments.
WSL2 overall performs at least "good enough" in practically every workload for those that may be bound to using Windows 10 for one reaso or another.
Even in various kernel micro-benchmarks, WSL2 is generally on par with bare metal Ubuntu 20.04 and its Linux 5.4 kernel.
The socket activity and context switching performance is much better under WSL2 due to the changed architecture.