[SunRescue] BSD faster than Solaris??

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Please don't try to compare across ARCHs...  It's just not worth it.  And
compareing between OSs is just as bad.  (I happen to be a Distributed.net
fan, and please don't get me started on RC5 rates).
	Nick

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Gil Young wrote:

> I dont doubt anything you observed.  In my "touchy-feely" experience, BSD
> running Linux packages in emulation mode run them overall faster than Linux
> does :).  BSD is very well optimized.
> 
> Also, beware tests that rely heavily on certain types of math, e.g. Mhz for
> Mhz, the Intel processors run things like the RC5DES cracking code faster
> than the same Mhz UltraSparc.
> 
> And finally, the Intel Solaris is generally a pig, I dont think much
> optimization at all is done with it, so imagine base code design for an OS
> geared towards running on RISC cobbled together to run on Intel for mainly
> marketing reasons.  Barf.
> 
> Gil Young
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael S. Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:32 PM
> Subject: [SunRescue] BSD faster than Solaris??
> 
> 
> > Brian Hechinger wrote:
> >
> > > >> i'm a huge fan, i think NetBSD rocks.
> > > >
> > > >  Yes it does.  It's capable of amazing amounts of work on even the
> > > > slowest of hardware.  And on fast hardware, it's GODLIKE! 8-)
> >
> > I have an HP Pavillion with has a 366mhz celleron in it. I installed
> FreeBSD on
> > it, then ran a benchmark program called Unixbench and it gave an overall
> sys
> > rating of something like 58. On my U5 it gives a rating of 29.6 and on a
> 170 mhz
> > sparc 5 it's like 12.4 or so. I don't know off hand if the benchmark
> program is
> > any good or not, and I know it probably doesn't represent a 'real world'
> test, but
> > I run it, as I figure it's a good way to see the general speed of a given
> machine.
> > When I installed Solaris 7 intel on the machine, and ran unixbench again
> it gave a
> > speed of 30.5 So what I'm really wondering is basically this: 1. Is it
> possible
> > that a 366mhz intel is the same basic speed as a 360mhz ultrasparc? and 2.
> Is it
> > possible that FreeBSD runs THAT much faster than solaris intel?
> >
> > -Mike
> >
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