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Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7
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Josh Carroll wrote:
>> 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.

don't forget to give this info when giving numbers :-)

> 
> Josh