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On 11/3/12 6:18 AM, Alie Tan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No offence, just curious about scheduler and its functionality.
>
> What is the different between this two that makes FreeBSD performance far
> behind DragonFly BSD? http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release32/

Looks like a few specific benchmarks that DragonFly aimed to do well at 
that we were unawares of.

Not sure, didn't see DragonFly sharing the results with us until this 
paper was published although I may have missed that.

-Alfred