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>> > time to wait and see if they will really make dragonfly faster than
>> > FreeBSD (it's their goal)...
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/dfly.html
>> 
>> Good luck to them, they need it :)
>> 
>
>That's a stupid benchmark. DragonFly doesn't have SMP support yet.

So?  Look at just the UP scores then.  From the above page:
"UP performance on FreeBSD 7 is 2.6 times higher than dragonfly UP
performance and 1.8 times higher than freebsd 4 UP performance."

Please explain how DragonFly's lack of SMP affects the UP performance?

Also, from an end user perspective, you can hardly get a computer
these days that only has one core.  SMP performance is very relevant
from that perspective.