TrueOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD & DragonFlyBSD Against Linux + Windows 10 Benchmarks

The BSDs were coming in much slower than the benchmarked Linux distributions with the PostgreSQL database performance. DragonFlyBSD 5.3 was the fastest of the tested BSDs on this Intel Core i9 system.

The Python performance was the fastest of the BSDs on FreeBSD 11.1//11.2 and largely right in line with the slower end of the Linux distributions benchmarked.

The PHP performance was similar on the BSDs to that of openSUSE and CentOS 7, even though PHP 7.2 was in use on all of the BSDs tested.

The time needed to carry out some simple Git commands were slower on the BSDs than Linux but at least not as slow as Windows 10.

DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD were the fastest when it came to the synthetic OSBench memory allocations benchmark. The FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT / TrueOS slowdowns are presumably due to debugging-friendly default builds in those releases.

Those wanting to dig through all the numbers at length can do so via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.