From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 9 11:00:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28232 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sturm.canonware.com (canonware.com [204.107.140.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28223 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:00:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: from localhost (jasone@localhost) by sturm.canonware.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05823; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:55:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Evans To: "Jan B. Koum " cc: Greg Lehey , Owen Barnett , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990109035423.A13514@best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Jan B. Koum wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:28:16PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 23:03:58 -0800, Jan B. Koum wrote: > > > But you are right - FreeBSD wins in the performance area > > > no questions asked. > > > > I disagree. I would ask questions, or at least answer implied > > questions. There's been enough unpleasantness between the *BSDs in > > the past; we don't want to start that again with a number of > > unqualified statements, even if they should be correct. > > You do not think FreeBSD is better in the performance > area? This is a simple yes or no question. :) If it is a simple yes or no question, then the question is flawed. As has been amply demonstrated by nearly every computer-related marketing machine in existence, "performance" can be applied to very small problem domains, and thus one program is clearly superior to the other, based on "indisputable" micro-benchmarks. Performance cannot be absolutely quantified without absolute constraints on the problem domain. Perpetuating the twisting of truth about performance for the "betterment" of FreeBSD is hardly laudable. Jason Jason Evans http://www.canonware.com/~jasone Home phone: (650) 856-8204 Work phone: (415) 808-8742 "I once knew a happy medium. Her name was Zohar." - James Foster To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message