From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 18 22:46:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08025 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA08020 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA06617 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:31:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA23691; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:09:48 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970618230948.EJ13870@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:09:48 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RiscBSD speed References: <9706181755.AA16829@fyeung8.netific.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Samplonius on Jun 18, 1997 11:59:11 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Samplonius wrote: > This was hardly relevant to the freebsd-hackers list. I normally hate off-topic postings, but i found it at least interesting (assuming also the usual grain of salt you gotta take for a microbenchmark like lmbench). > FreeBSD doesn't > run on most of those platforms. Plus, the benchmarks were run on FreeBSD > 2.1, but which 2.1? 2.1.0, 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.7? The picture mentioned 2.1-S, presumably meaning 2.1-stable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)