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On 11/3/12 7:02 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote:
>> Looks like a few specific benchmarks that DragonFly aimed to do well at that
>> we were unawares of.
>>
> Unawares of? http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/08/03/06/1313218/freebsd-70-bests-linux-in-smp-performance
> The FreeBSD project made hay with sysbench and pgbench not that long ago.
>
>> Not sure, didn't see DragonFly sharing the results with us until this paper
>> was published although I may have missed that.
>>
> Is the DragonFly project under some obligation to share its results
> with the FreeBSD developers?

My takeaway is that this conversation is dumb.

-Alfred