Debian Linux vs. Debian kFreeBSD With Squeeze & Wheezy

Published on December 12, 2012
Written by Michael Larabel
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For the Dolfyn Computational Fluid Dynamics benchmark, the performance improved for both Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD to near identical performance in Wheezy. Wheezy is using the GCC 4.7 compiler over GCC 4.4.5 in its predecessor.

Debian GNU/Linux was doing slightly better with the MPI-based FFTE benchmark.

Debian GNU/Linux also carried a huge advantage in the MAFFT molecular biology benchmark.

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