Re: Benchmarks: FreeBSD 13 vs. NetBSD 9.2 vs. OpenBSD 7 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6 vs. Linux

1. Where are compiler options for BSDs?
2. Why they compare -O2 to -O3 code in some benchmarks? Why they enable
fast math in some, and disable it for others?
3. Why they don't mention powerd setup for FreeBSD? By default it may use
slowest CPU mode. Did they even load cpufreq kernel module?
4. Did they even care about default FreeBSD mitigations (via sysctl)
enabled, or it's only valid for Linuxes? ;)
5. What happened to security and environment details of BSDs?

It's kinda known that guys from Phroenix lack basic knowledge of how to do
proper performance testing and lack basic knowledge about BSD systems.
Nothing new. Would take these results with a grain of salt.

On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 10:53, beepc.ch <xpetrl@beepc.ch> wrote:

> > I am surprised to see that the BSD cluster today has much worse
> performance
> > than Linux.
> > What do you think of this?
>
> "Default" FreeBSD install setting are quite conservative.
> The Linux common distros are high tuned, those benchmark is in my
> opinion comparison of apples and oranges.
>
> Comparing "default" FreeBSD install with "default" Slackware install
> would be more interesting, because Slackware builds are at most vanilla.
>
>

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