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From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ?
Date: 3 Feb 1997 09:25:18 GMT
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Thomas Gunnar Sparks <tgs@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>: I have been benchmarking a program on various machines and discovered that
>: the program -- fortran program -- runs 2 to 2.5 times faster on Linux
>: (Slackware 2.3 - Slackware 96) than on FreeBSD 2.1.5.  I have both Linux
...
>The real question should be which program executes faster when its done 
>compiling.. compile time is irrelevant to a program's functionality..

He gave that data: "runs 2 to 2.5 times faster on Linux".

--Tim Smith