From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 13 19:00:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA13606 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA13599 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA08586 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 22:04:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 22:04:14 -0400 Message-Id: <199604140204.WAA08586@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Unices are created equal, but ... Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> >> Even if this benchmark is a little questionnable, I invite people who say or >> write that Unix B is FASTER than Unix A to stop, or to say or write >> the OPPOSITE. >> >I suggest that you benchmark recent versions of both (say FreeBSD-current >vs. Linux-current). FreeBSD fork/exec perf has gone up significantly, >among other things. Please compare equivalent vintages. > Nay, compare 1.2.13 with 2.1R. -current and 1.3.x are not products by any stretch....as they're not usable by anyone but hackers. What would you have said if Gates compared his beta kernels to anything? Its meaningless. dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX