ubench on v6 a v7

[Karel Rous]

It needs further exploration on different hw as well. I will try but 
it'll take quite a long time :-)

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Karel Rous wrote:
>>    My home computer (no internet access, cannot share results :-) is 
>> single processor Athlon 64 on 2250 Mhz/512 KB L2. Visually I have 
>> seen that on stable it doesn't behave as speedily as on FreeBSD 
>> number 6. I have checked utility in subject (which is probably not 
>> the best alternative) and it shows me on memory test half of the 
>> speed that was in v6 while using default MALLOC_OPTIONS at each 
>> version. There could be certain speed up changing it but IMHO there 
>> can not be any we to make it as fast as in previous version. Is there 
>> anyone who could make a logical explanation? (I think it has 
>> something to do with new malloc optimization for multi processor 
>> systems but I might compiled also libc on FreeBSD 7 with wrong 
>> options). Even using simple compat6x libc (with libmap.conf) helps to 
>> speed up things there.
>>    All those measurement are my just my non generalized opinion and I 
>> hope I am wrong :-)
>
> If you can confirm your results in a clean environment, you might want 
> to talk to jasone@ about this.
>