Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:36:32 +0100 From: Lexi Winter <lexi@le-fay.org> To: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, kargl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <ZnJ8cLFAWqOG1z4o@ilythia.eden.le-fay.org> In-Reply-To: <06f93359-b284-494c-b8b1-dc3dba1e1264@gmail.com> References: <ZnHEVbKEh8gF-Aje@fuz.su> <06f93359-b284-494c-b8b1-dc3dba1e1264@gmail.com>
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--lvdrihkP8yiTAdrR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jason Bacon: > Coincidentally, I just came across a recent benchmark that might provide > some hints about where to focus the efforts: >=20 > https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x please don't pay any attention to Phoronix "benchmarks". it's fairly clear from looking at some of what they've published in the past that they have no editorial standards at all and the results they produce are meaningless; for example the "benchmark" where they claimed zstd compression on FreeBSD was about ~10x slower than on Linux, yet they did not think this was worth investigating or even mentioning in their write-up even though it makes no sense at all and is clearly some kind of measurment error. i would hate for someone to put any amount of effort into attempting to "fix" any "problems" raised by Phoronix benchmarks only to find out the source data is nonsense. --lvdrihkP8yiTAdrR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGzBAABCAAdFiEEuwt6MaPcv/+Mo+ftDHqbqZ41x5kFAmZyfG8ACgkQDHqbqZ41 x5kbUQwAiknHqBiMUNZVn13FDj26yLY1dUouy9ZpfPkoO+Qqe+GKcugWfr6LPxvk F050KTWD4fSe6HQJUusvNHJxrFOGwjDV5U9iOOAV5V9mVBCOX4BhjFKTLI1DQmwj 2BCvgDrbyqlw+sZBm8gzVrVeasxDueevagXOetRDBv0VKcwoJzP/fqMdDR5Q+BIh mzhgt0XkFlH4GkHPXjnj9CNXssFbfROsBmv2PHXnqFKHxdCd0xZlbbtz8r4QEDhF h/jqVVE//DZSPeqWHmcPvrdZemzlWlw9pugR/PXXAobEdaaftC/gHEZeZlb4sm4Z Fg9mEb4i19ohbMH/8D4fRyIvUPRxiUfpyquMGl/EUERyYsEPXosUN53MMIsY7GvP +p1t2C/p5DRNvIo2e+nWJb6g5lqN0VfccmAu1hHWFn7D3rJHFGKj/INc2yrBFxEY 7mip2bSrm5Ria9kv7BFl1Zqynu724kq/h9yqW9mh4yfjhR9Wto0b8PBbACCgkAon +0wgu00v =Uf5A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lvdrihkP8yiTAdrR--
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