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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:22:27 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r341803 - head/libexec/rc
Message-ID:  <2321.1544563347@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20181212071210.L826@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201812110138.wBB1cp1p006660@repo.freebsd.org> <2a76b295-b2da-3015-c201-dbe0ec63ca5a@FreeBSD.org> <98481565-CDD7-4301-B86B-072D5B984AF7@FreeBSD.org> <dafbcc18-146f-2e4f-e1e9-346d7c05b096@FreeBSD.org> <20181212071210.L826@besplex.bde.org>

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In message <20181212071210.L826@besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>But software bloat is now outrunning CPU speed increases.  Some bandwidths
>for reading 1 byte at a time run today on the same 2GHz CPU i386 UP hardware
>
>linux-2.1.128 kernel built in 1998: 2500k/sec
>linux-2.4.0t8 kernel built in 2000: 1720k/sec
>linux-2.6.10  kernel built in 2004: 1540k/sec
>FreeBSD-4     kernel built in 2007:  680k/sec
>FreeBSD-~5.2  kernel built in 2018:  700k/sec
>FreeBSD-11    kernel built in 2018:  720k/sec (SMP kernel)
>FreeBSD-pre12 kernel built in 2018:  540k/sec (SMP kernel)
>FreeBSD-13    kernel built in 2018:  170k/sec (SMP kernel)

It is not just software bloat, it is also caused by the deeper and
deeper pile of kludges between what goes for a "CPU" these days and
what counts as "RAM".

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