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I wonder what's the performance delta like with latest OpenBSD and FreeBSD. The gap used to huge. Have we reached the point where we could ignore that performan

by ksec 3y ago

I wonder what's the performance delta like with latest OpenBSD and FreeBSD. The gap used to huge. Have we reached the point where we could ignore that performance cost and adopt OpenBSD for majority of appliance and applications.

alberth 3y ago
I imagine it remains significant, and will always be so. OpenBSD prioritizes simplicity over almost all else. And modern OS’es do complex work to fully utilize all cores. This complexity is something OpenBSD has yet to adopt. Ironically, DragonflyBSD forked from FreeBSD over wanting to go down an innovative (and simpler) approach to SMP … and while it took it awhile to get there, its performance is on par or better than all the BSD, including FreeBSD. (With the smallest of all dev teams of the BSDs too)