DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Performance Is Looking Great - Initial Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 14 May 2021 at 09:02 AM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 24 Comments.

Kernel micro-benchmarks were obviously showing big gains with all the work that's gone on for DragonFlyBSD 6.0.

When taking the geometric mean of some 50 benchmarks ran on DragonFlyBSD 5.8.3 vs. 6.0 on this same system, the new release comes out to being 6% faster overall. See all 50 benchmark results for this early comparison over on OpenBenchmarking.org while staying tuned for the benchmarks against Linux and FreeBSD 13.0 on more systems.

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