DragonFlyBSD 5.4 & FreeBSD 12.0 Performance Benchmarks, Comparison Against Linux

With the Stockfish C++ chess benchmark, DragonFlyBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 12.0 were both slightly faster than their previous releases and not too far behind the Linux distributions.

For code compilation speed, FreeBSD 12.0 has a nice boost compared to FreeBSD 11.2, but came in slower than Ubuntu and CentOS. Clear Linux is noticeably slower than the other Linux distributions in compile times due to the compiler flags it passes by default to yield greater performance of the resulting binaries but at the cost of compiler speed.

DragonFlyBSD was faster than FreeBSD with the C-Ray ray-tracing. This was one of the cases where switching FreeBSD from Clang to GCC yielded even slower performance.

With a basic Rustlang benchmark, the BSDs were just slower than Clear Linux and Ubuntu.

And in the Nodejs benchmark, FreeBSD 11.2 was competitive with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS only to pullback with FreeBSD 12.0, but still faster than DragonFlyBSD.