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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!brokaw.wa.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ? Date: 3 Feb 1997 09:25:18 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. Lines: 11 Message-ID: <5d4atu$pb0$1@brokaw.wa.com> References: <dkleinh.854654600@isotope.ps.uci.edu> <5cr93r$59h@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34937 Thomas Gunnar Sparks <tgs@cats.ucsc.edu> 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 ... >The real question should be which program executes faster when its done >compiling.. compile time is irrelevant to a program's functionality.. He gave that data: "runs 2 to 2.5 times faster on Linux". --Tim Smith