Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster

[Brandon Edens]

> 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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