DragonFlyBSD Continues Squeezing More Performance Out Of AMD's Threadripper 2990WX
Some of the early tuning work for the 2990WX had hurt the x265 video encode performance, but that is improved compared to the last time DragonFlyBSD 5.3 was tested on this setup.
In some tests the GraphicsMagick performance was flat, but in some of these OpenMP imaging tasks there was also performance improvements on this newer 5.3 development snapshot.
The Stockfish chess engine suffered during the early NUMA optimization work but is making headway. The current regression might be due to the upgraded GCC compiler now deployed on DragonFlyBSD 5.3.
The Zstd compression performance saw a nice performance bump with the latest image.