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Subject: Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7
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> is bigger better or worse?

For sysbench bigger is better (more transactions per second). For
ffmpeg, lower is better - e.g. the time to transcode the first 120
seconds of the selected video is less, so it ran faster.

Josh