About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Thu Nov 8 13:33:43 PST 2007


On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:48:47 -0300
Mario Lobo <mario.lobo at ipad.com.br> wrote:

> On Thursday 08 November 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote:

> > 7.X is the beginning of the versions specifically designed with
> > multiprocessing/cores in mind
> 
> Does this mean that 6.x will perform better on single cpu systems?
> 
The idea that 7.x was  "specifically designed with
multiprocessing/cores in mind" and that it's just an afterthought in
6.x is really wrong. It's all part of a development process that started
with 5-current; most of the changes are in 6.x, they just don't work as
well as they do in 7.x


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