Very good article and very interesting benchmarks, thank you very much Michael for all this excellent hard work.
I think what this extensive benchmarking experiment shows is that an entire Linux distribution can be optimized for performance to bring some extra speed for just about any sort of load. It just takes a lot of man*hours of expert Linux software engineers (in other words, you have to throw a lot of money at it, the kind of money Intel can afford).
The next important question of course is, do you really need that extra speed in most cases, versus the swiss-knife versatility, number and variety of packages, and community support for distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc? I know I don't want to switch from my current (xxxxxxxxxx) distribution to Clear Linux exactly for those reasons.
But still, Clear Linux remains an interesting distribution and a reference for all developers in the Linux community.
I think what this extensive benchmarking experiment shows is that an entire Linux distribution can be optimized for performance to bring some extra speed for just about any sort of load. It just takes a lot of man*hours of expert Linux software engineers (in other words, you have to throw a lot of money at it, the kind of money Intel can afford).
The next important question of course is, do you really need that extra speed in most cases, versus the swiss-knife versatility, number and variety of packages, and community support for distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc? I know I don't want to switch from my current (xxxxxxxxxx) distribution to Clear Linux exactly for those reasons.
But still, Clear Linux remains an interesting distribution and a reference for all developers in the Linux community.
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