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What is "John The Ripper v1.7.3.1" test? I'd like to see "Firefox startup" test and similar..

• tptacek 17y ago
  John The Ripper is the most famous password cracker in the world, presumably in the benchmark because it's a good example of a heavily optimized compute-bound application.
  • gjm11 17y ago
    Which is to say, just the sort of application for which OS differences are unlikely to matter much. (Compared with, say, what compiler happened to be used to build the application, or what else was running on the mcahine at the same time.) Unfortunately, many of the benchmarks they used seem to be of this sort. Not that it matters much, since the author of the article offered basically no analysis or explanation of any of the results, just a series of barcharts, each followed by a single paragraph trying to find a superficially different way of paraphrasing the numbers in the barchart.
    • tptacek 17y ago
      Meh. Scheduler? I don't know. I clicked this link by accident, saw "John the Ripper", and just decided to clear up what JtR was and how it could be a benchmark program. I think OS benchmarks are themselves kind of silly.
      • gjm11 17y ago
        For the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't in the least criticizing you. Only Phoronix and their not=obviously-helpful benchmarking and reporting practices.