Benchmarks results for Compilers on FreeBSD 11

Andrea Brancatelli abrancatelli at schema31.it
Tue Aug 30 07:14:56 UTC 2016


Il 2016-08-30 05:51 K. Macy ha scritto:

> I can't speak for the whole universe of users, but I think it's safe
> to say that most users are not power users who individually configure
> ports tailored to their needs. I think my experiences on Ubuntu, where
> I'm definitely not a power user, are illustrative. I never compile
> *anything* that has a package in an ubuntu repo and I assume that the
> packages are configured when built to enable any performance options
> that don't potentially cause stability issues. Similarly, on FreeBSD
> most users are going to be using packages and they're going to assume
> that the packages are configured to "provide the best user
> experience". Consequently anyone using a package that could use OpenMP
> is going to legitimately just assume that "X" is slower on FreeBSD.
> And for all intents and purposes "X" _is_ slower.

I second this 100%. 

If anyone thinks that this is not the "correct" approach then I don't
see the point of the PKG project as a whole.


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