On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:43:15 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> The Phoronix Test Suite appears to be written entirely in PHP[2]. > I've looked at the source and it does appear to be PHP-based (with > reliance on numerous third-party C-based libraries, of course; this > is normal). Given that, I'm not sure I can really take the results of > some of those tests seriously. I'm not dissuading the evidence, I'm > just saying, it's more of a "PHP benchmark on <OS>" than it is an OS > benchmark. > > [1]: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ > [2]: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads The benchmarks are scheduled by PHP, but the benchmark tests aren't: if you look in pts\test-resources it seems it tests how long it takes to build programs like mplayer and apache, and interprets the timing results from programs like dbench, iozone, scimark2 and povray. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
