Benchmarking Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 vs. GNU/Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 31 July 2015 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 29 Comments.

Those are the common CPU benchmark results, a few other metrics along with other system information are available from this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. In many workloads the performance between Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 and Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 was similar but in certain tasks like audio/video encoding, there was a night and day difference between Hurd and Linux.

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