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From: Walter Hafner <hafner@suncog13.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ?
Date: 06 Feb 1997 13:12:07 +0100
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viren@cc.gatech.edu (Viren R. Shah) writes:

> I don't think it's all that obvious that the libraries need to be recompiled
> if you have a FPU, and I wonder how many FreeBSD users know about it, and 
> how many actually do it.

I didn't know.

I recompiled.

I got 20% more speed.

(P-Pro 200; Testing the benchmark of our image processing
system. Actually according to our benchmark, the image processing speed
on a P-Pro under FreeBSD is now better than on a Ultra-143 or a Indigo2)

-Walter

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