FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has brought benchmarks comparing the FreeBSD 8.0-RC and Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 operating systems. FreeBSD rather ends up taking a wallop to Ubuntu Linux, but there are a few areas where FreeBSD 8 ran well. They also posted benchmarks comparing this near-final FreeBSD 8.0 build to that of FreeBSD 7.2 to show performance improvements there but with a few regressions."

Let's see these against my Gentoo...

[Jurily]

...once I'm done compiling.

Re:Let's see these against my Gentoo...

[wall0159]

Given that, I think it'd be fairer to compare Gentoo against Ubuntu 10.04, don't you?

Re:Safe to assume?

[Ian Alexander]

Yes, because the masses of casual users struggling under the crushing weight of FreeBSD that was preinstalled on their PC will naturally flock to Ubuntu...

Re:Benchmarks...

[Just Some Guy]

Writing fast / optimized code doesn't mean writing hard to read code, it just means writing the best code.

That's just darling! For some reason, I picture you writing an MD5 library that keeps a hash table of inputs to their computed outputs so that you won't have to recalculate them. That'd be fast! And optimized!