Re:From macOS to FreeBSD
by trasz on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:13PM
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Let me guess, the benchmarks you have in mind are Phoronix, right? :->
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No I think I saw them on openbenchmarking, why?
Looking at openbenchmarking.org, it seems they are related to Phoronix?
As to why - essentially, Phoronix benchmarks are crap, for a number of reasons:
1. They don't provide things like standard deviation
2. They compile software in improper way
3. They don't even know what are they measuring in the first place
It's been pointed to them numerous times, and honestly, I think it's a waste of time.
I dunno, sounds like sour grapes to me.
Those benchmarks are in agreement with my subjective experience of running (open)bsd on an allegedly well-suoported thinkpad: compared to debian, bsd was sluggish and lasted hours less on battery.
No idea about OpenBSD (BSDs are completely separate operating systems), but I remember recent case where certain bad FreeBSD result was tracked down to PTS failing to correctly measure test time.
I hate to say this, but I suspect PTS is not actually a benchmark - it’s a publicity generation tool pretending to be a benchmark.
Re:From macOS to FreeBSD
by 1500100900 on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:42PM
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Performance is not the top priority for OpenBSD developers.