Perry E. Metzger writes:
> "John S. Dyson" writes:
> > You are misstating my claims, and I hope you meant to by mistake, becuase
> > otherwise your ethics should be challenged.  Didn't I say that our
> > compiles are 3 times faster?  I thought that is what I said.  BTW,
> > they are.  (Okay, they might be 2.5X or somesuch.)  Of course I am
> > talking about a huge project, about the size of a make world, and
> > I qualified it as such.
> 
> Actually, you never qualified it as such.
> 
> However, lets see if I can get this straight.
> 
> You compile a DIFFERENT CODE BASE, ON A DIFFERENT MACHINE, THREE TIMES 
> FASTER.
> 
> This is a benchmark?

Perry, please calm yourself.

FreeBSD already implemented merged VM & buffer cache which we (NetBSD) 
don't have, yet.
So, it doesn't surprise me that sometimes FreeBSD is 3 times faster 
than NetBSD on some disk-related benchmark such as make world. 
(Of course, not always, but sometimes)
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soda