> Yeah, from the numbers it looks as if it would be dependent on the > purpose of the cluster whether OS X or Gentoo would do better. On ppc, > Gentoo does poorly on the first two benchmarks and also on context > switching. On x86, the first two are more comparable with RH, but the > others, Gentoo has a small to large advantage over RH, just as on ppc.
First and second benchmarks are dhrystone and whetstone, synthetic benchmarks. I'd be wary of these types of benchmarks; they've been cheated before. I'd like to see some real-world computation benchmarks. Brandon Edens
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