On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:02:01 +0100, Roger Larsson said:

Hi,
 
 Please note that Moshe is (usually) very pro Linux (read his earlier columns).
 I guess that he had expected Linux 2.4 to really beat FreeBSD - it did not...
 

I was speaking about the reaction of pride Linux developpers had after the
Mindcraft "benchamrks" pointed to design flaws in Linux.  Here it is a BSD who
could be beating the pants of Linux

 /RogerL 
 
 On Wednesday 07 February 2001 01:25, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
 > Moshe Barr is claiming on Byte that sendmail and mysql are 30% faster on
 > FreeBSD than Linux 2.4.   Now given that I don't think that mysql is
 > spending 30% of its time in kernel mode there are not many ways FreeBSD can
 > be 30% faster.
 >
 > 1) Compiler issues.  Moshe Barr does not tell what distrib ha was using so
 > we don't know what distribution was used and with what
 >

Here should have read "we don't know what compiler was used and with what
compiler flags (like -O2 versus -O3)"

							JFM
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