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Subject: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:08:45PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> I realize every additional variation increases the testing load, but I'd 
> be interested in seeing linuxthreads performance on 5.x/6.x also.  While 
> we've worked hard to improve native threading, linuxthreading remains 
> fully functional, and given that MySQL may well be being optimized based 
> on assumptions regarding the Linux threading model, it could well be 
> linuxthreads comes in ahead on recent versions.

linuxthreads actually doesn't compile for amd64. I can try i386 versions
of 5.4 and 6.0 too; that will delay the results by a couple more days
though (I'm doing this in my spare time, though using work hardware).