Byte Benchmarks Various Linux Trees

urbanjunkie writes: "Moshe Bar has an interesting article, essentially benchmarking the standard kernel (with aa VM) against the -ac kernel (with Rik's VM)." He also raises some very interesting points about how patches (and entire development trees) interact.

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Pournelle ?

[nick-less]

[from the article...]
> As Jerry Pournelle pointed

I always though he's a sience-fiction author?

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What's in a number?

[gTsiros]

Numbers numbers numbers... what does all of this mean? I can't see the point benchmarking something generic like that. The kernel first of all wasn't meant to be used like that so it might very well not perform well on the benchmark.

So, pushing the limits a little, i could say that this isn't much different than 'bogomips'

Note that the physical counterpart thought (where you test run, for example, a car for days on end to measure it's endurance) does not apply here.

Then again, this might actually mean something regarding the low level procedures responsible for allocating memory. Never read source, tho, probably never will, out of my league :/