DragonFlyBSD 5.4 & FreeBSD 12.0 Performance Benchmarks, Comparison Against Linux

In the OpenSSL signing benchmark, DragonFlyBSD comes slightly ahead of FreeBSD but still behind the three tested Linux distributions.

The Python3 performance is still much faster on Linux than the BSDs, but at least DragonFlyBSD 5.4 made some headroom.

Clear Linux swept the other operating systems in the PHP performance. In the case of CentOS 7, it was tested using the EL7 Software Collections to avoid having to still use PHP5, which would be even slower than the BSDs.

Lastly with the XZ compression benchmark, FreeBSD managed to secure a second place win right behind Clear Linux while DragonFlyBSD (and FreeBSD with GCC8) were much slower than Ubuntu and CentOS.

Keep in mind this is just our first round of tests on FreeBSD 12.0 and DragonFlyBSD 5.4.0 with some dual socket Intel/AMD server tests coming up next. From these initial tests run on the Core i9 7980XE 36-thread workstation, of 37 tests run, Clear Linux won 23 of the tests (62%) followed by Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with seven wins and then CentOS 7.6 with five wins. DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD each just won one test a piece when compared to these three Linux distributions.

If dropping the Linux distributions and just looking at FreeBSD 12.0 against DragonFlyBSD 5.4.0, it was quite a competitive race with DragonFlyBSD 5.4 having 17 wins to FreeBSD 12.0 having 16 wins. Or if also including the run of FreeBSD 12.0 with the GCC8 compiler, the wins tipped in FreeBSD's favor where it had a combined 25 wins.