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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems
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Date: 15 Sep 1996 10:44:18 GMT
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John Dyson, in <323652FA.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>:
[...]
>Also, the FreeBSD that they benchmarked is the "old stuff".  Even though
>it isn't suggested -- there are people using FreeBSD-current in
>production, and certain vintages of it are very good (and light
>years beyond 2.1.X.)  And as always, FreeBSD is never compiled
>-fomit-frame-pointer or with optimizations over -O out of the box.

out of interest, why is this thus? i assume it must be a deliberate
policy decision, but what might be its background?
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