Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:00:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches) Message-ID: <3482.172.16.0.199.1116882013.squirrel@172.16.0.1> In-Reply-To: <20050523195123.GA13810@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050523195123.GA13810@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, May 23, 2005 3:51 pm, Kris Kennaway said: > The common wisdom has been that FreeBSD 4.11 is faster than 5.4 on > single processor systems. Imagine my surprise when I went and actually > benchmarked this on the package build machines, and found that 5.4 > outperforms 4.11 by at least 10% when performing identical workloads on > identical UP hardware :-) > > Stay tuned for more details... To be honest, i have not (yet) done any specific benchmarks for my application, but overall, last time i used 4.x, it seemed more snappy. But, this is good to hear :)
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