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From: Felipe Garcia <felipe.garcia@mbox3.swipnet.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ?
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:37:39 +0100
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Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote:
> 
> I have been benchmarking a program on various machines and discovered that
> the program -- fortran program -- runs 2 to 2.5 times faster on Linux
> (Slackware 2.3 - Slackware 96) than on FreeBSD 2.1.5.  I have both Linux
> and FreeBSD on my Pentium 100 Mhz, 48MB RAM and was pretty surprised.
> I'm compiling my program with the stock g77 that comes with each OS.  I know
> Linux is using gcc-2.7.2 and FreeBSD is using gcc-2.6.3 and so I went back
> to my old Slackware 2.3, which has gcc-2.6.3 and this was still twice as
> fast.  Anyone have any ideas why ?
> 
> Dirk
> dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu

I noiced that too but I also notice that while compling under linux I
couldn't o much more than wait while under freebsd I can compile 5 or
more program at once and still run netscape and surf........

Filan

fxg@usis.usemb.se