[ug-bosug] More Belenix feedback

[Ananth Shrinivas]

> i have been trying to port some of my old programs from linux to
> opensolaris(belenix rather).   i would really like to say that gcc
> (3.3.4?) under belenix(still using 0.4.3) compiled *much faster* than
> other systems that ive tried (linux 3.4 and freebsd 3.4)... the
> difference was just a few seconds as per my watch but i really havent
> performed any time study for comparision.     Way to go!! :=))

Incidentally, I did some *unscientific* performance testing of gcc 3.4
by compiling the similar source bases on BeleniX, FreeBSD and Ubuntu.

FreeBSD was the fastest and BeleniX a close second in most cases. Quite
surprisingly Linux generally lagged both BSD and Solaris. Maybe using
the John Birrell's Dtrace-able FreeBSD kernel we can isolate where BSD
scores - either I/O or CPU or something else ...

Cheers,
Ananth