From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 15 21:46:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDED116A417 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh.carroll@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4D013C428 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh.carroll@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so911364rvb for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:46:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=4DanvvQ1pTfgx8XcDw/bgmj3YmjKe/y0OOxgIdHF8Sc=; b=ffgz/tifHDEJX4x7kuzfiDoIT/5Ce0nOEa2H0rCSiTdGPKSgaz9kK7Cu5i84jplQxDdwWiit/EliiHoKInfL6p2eKnGrLT8ZvTX8E82sjyQvCerwvL9T14CvQcq/xCppMLMnWz24/62B3Q1FzfgsEozwe1A9N0NhxM1B/GKjsMA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=seniyB59l3WsTDx8Nk+Nr5NFfJqLCx764DWXddxiYLLup8xH7OLLIhyW5Qs9nrQQ6l5IhQ6zkCkp4GMEujYWk1OCAKkE0Xh/lpTcqoVWTq0qb1C6moSei9btn86hivu91Ak2AEcEhxAWVEI+9W77ko9kP+nI98+H2slPSbCXOmA= Received: by 10.142.128.6 with SMTP id a6mr688426wfd.1189892814356; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.160.20 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8cb6106e0709151446x4c54a520u2d5cd543ba1541e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:46:54 -0400 From: "Josh Carroll" To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <46EC50DA.6000104@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <26ddd1750709141351i3646e9bdg8d8b7e93461167f9@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750709151014x2112b022r9bcb999fbf1e7e49@mail.gmail.com> <46EC270A.3020100@FreeBSD.org> <8cb6106e0709151421h7bfdeb6fo7dc671820294e9c7@mail.gmail.com> <46EC4F59.7070104@FreeBSD.org> <8cb6106e0709151435p72cd328by63895421f3a63ea4@mail.gmail.com> <46EC50DA.6000104@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Maxim Khitrov , Aryeh Friedman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: josh.carroll@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:46:54 -0000 > That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded > performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland > though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the preferred thread library for 6.2 also (I'd heard that was the case for -CURRENT). I should look into whether ffmpeg can be built with libthr instead and compare performance. Somewhat off topic, so I'll leave it at that, but thanks again for the great info. I'm really looking forward to 7.0-RELEASE, obviously :) Josh