Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:02:31 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Bohdan Horst <nexus@hoth.amu.edu.pl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (nbench results) Message-ID: <42939667.6080503@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <20050524205609.GC35326@aristo> References: <20050524193117.GA35326@aristo> <20050524193707.GA11906@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050524201701.GB35326@aristo> <20050524202118.GB28257@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050524205609.GC35326@aristo>
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Bohdan Horst wrote: > (5.4O == 4.11 binary on 5.4R) > almost identical speed :) Well, that's hardly surprising.. short of minimizing the number of page faults and avoiding TLB/cache shootdowns, what can the OS do to speed up the CPU pipeline? The nbench program doesn't benchmark any OS functions at all (except for loading time). mkb.
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