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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 23:02:31 +0200
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To:        Bohdan Horst <nexus@hoth.amu.edu.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (nbench results)
Message-ID:  <42939667.6080503@incubus.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050524205609.GC35326@aristo>
References:  <20050524193117.GA35326@aristo>	<20050524193707.GA11906@xor.obsecurity.org>	<20050524201701.GB35326@aristo>	<20050524202118.GB28257@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050524205609.GC35326@aristo>

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Bohdan Horst wrote:

> (5.4O == 4.11 binary on 5.4R)
> almost identical speed :)

Well, that's hardly surprising.. short of minimizing the number of page
faults and avoiding TLB/cache shootdowns, what can the OS do to speed up
the CPU pipeline?  The nbench program doesn't benchmark any OS functions
at all (except for loading time).

mkb.



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