Intel Still Has The Upperhand On BSD Support - Core i9 10980XE Benchmarks With DragonFlyBSD + FreeBSD

Python performance on FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD still doesn't appear to be as fast as the Linux distributions.

Of various open-source benchmarks ran on the Linux distributions, DragonFlyBSD, and FreeBSD, the FreeBSD 12.1 results tended to be quite compelling in that on the Core i9 10980XE workstation was performing competitively with the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora. CentOS 8, Debian 10, and Clear Linux meanwhile tended to still be faster. DragonFlyBSD did perform competitively in a number of the benchmarks but in other cases its performance was much lower than what we were seeing out of Linux.

These results jive with what we've seen in recent years of the Intel BSD support being there at launch with not having to worry about compatibility like is often the case with new AMD platforms. On the performance side, while improvements are being made to both DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD, Linux still generally offers better performance in most workloads but at least the BSDs are increasingly competitive.