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> This is where this benchmark gets in, not in compile time, again has nothing
> to do with it, all the problem begins when HINT (a 9kb executable) is
> running and it tells you how much the hardware can do in intervals of
> time but the point is that in the same machine FreeBSD has a better
> performance than linux, HINT overloads tha machine to its maximum
> running floating point operations and it fill the L1 cache then the L2 cache
> then RAM and then swap, then it finished telling you how much your
> machine do. If somebody though about the poor linux performance in this
> area i think we can achieve a better in unbeatable OS.
Optimizing the OS for horrible overload won't necesarily give you decent
performance under realistic loads.
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