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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.csc.fi!news.funet.fi!news.abo.fi!not-for-mail From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 15 Sep 1996 10:44:18 GMT Organization: Unorganized Usenet Postings UnInc. Lines: 12 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <51gmm2$snk@josie.abo.fi> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> <aak2.842255270@Isis.MsState.Edu> <511pa6$avb@agate.berkeley.edu> <513f4t$ac@anorak.coverform.lan> <323652FA.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> Reply-To: mandtbac@abo.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.abo.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950520BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27355 comp.os.linux.misc:129504 John Dyson, in <323652FA.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>: [...] >Also, the FreeBSD that they benchmarked is the "old stuff". Even though >it isn't suggested -- there are people using FreeBSD-current in >production, and certain vintages of it are very good (and light >years beyond 2.1.X.) And as always, FreeBSD is never compiled >-fomit-frame-pointer or with optimizations over -O out of the box. out of interest, why is this thus? i assume it must be a deliberate policy decision, but what might be its background? -- "I miss the comfort in being sad" -- Nirvana