FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

[Adrian Chadd]

2008/11/25 Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org>:

>> I believe most of the synthetic numbers (mp3 encoding etc.) difference
>> comes from the different version of gcc the different OS uses...
>
> You're very likely right. Ubuntu 8.10 has gcc 4.3.x - it could make for
> the small difference in gzip and 7z compression performance.

Well, that should be a reasonably easy thing to test and feed back to
the author.



Adrian