Re: DragonFly faster than linux or FreeBSD?

[Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Mynott wrote:

> On the same aging laptop (P2/366/192Mb with kern.mmxopt=1) I have ran 
> FreeBSD 5, Linux (Fedora) and DragonFly.
>
> Although, its not scientific and quite subjective I have had the 
> distinct impression that both KDE (3.2.1) and Java (Native FreeBSD) are 
> noticably faster on DragonFly than the other systems.

> The FreeBSD 5 result is perhaps no surprise but the Linux one was (maybe 
> resulted from different KDE versions/graphic drivers).
>
> Can anyone confirm this?

If you try FreeBSD 4.x, it should be even a bit faster :)
FreeBSD 5 went downhill after the 5.x split[*], and DFlyBSD is trying to 
achieve its features using different approaches to the same problems 
(SMP, scalability), but starting "from scratch" with the 4.x branch.


[*] IMHO, ofcourse :)