Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD?
- In reply to: Warner Losh : "Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD?"
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:18:44 UTC
On 6/18/24 16:31, Warner Losh wrote: > Coincidentally, I just came across a recent benchmark that might > provide > some hints about where to focus the efforts: > > https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x > <https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x> > > > > But stress-ng isn't a benchmark. It says so in it's docs. Also there are > several ifdef linux in the source to make it faster on linux. > > I wouldn't waste my time on that garbage. Well, I wouldn't take the results of stress-ng, or even a proper benchmark tool (if there is such a thing) at face value. I'd always run multiple tests and try to understand *why* they're producing the results that they are. I was only suggesting that these results might provide a data point to help narrow down the areas where FreeBSD could be improved. Maybe some of the apparent "weaknesses" in FreeBSD are due to #ifdef Linux // Optimized code #else // Generic code #endif as was suggested. But they might also indicate something real. We'll never know if we dismiss them without a closer look. We could at least see if any of these results are corroborated by other tools. That much is easy. -- Life is a game. Play hard. Play fair. Have fun.