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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news 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 Organization: - Lines: 21 Message-ID: <32F114A3.41C67EA6@mbox3.swipnet.se> References: <dkleinh.854654600@isotope.ps.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup97-1-8.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: s-219804 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34814 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