From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jul 6 16:57:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E720A14CFF; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id JAA13972; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:27:12 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA25978; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:27:11 +0930 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:27:11 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Chris Costello Cc: chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheesy benchmarks In-Reply-To: <19990706150944.I4158@holly.dyndns.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > It seems someone who seems to be rather inexperienced has done > some benchmarks with FreeBSD against Linux. They're so > amazingly -- well -- stupid. > > http://perl.pattern.net/bench/ What's stupid about them? Apart from the fact that details of kernel tuning (if any) and compiler options weren't specified, I guess. Kris ----- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." -- Unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message