prad wrote: [snip] > (curiously, i've found on my system at least that some > things seem > to work faster on openbsd than freebsd.) > Shouldn't be a surprise, really. Efficiency is really more a case of never being too inefficient rather that occasionally being very efficient. (ie hard.) Anything take takes longer than it should is doing something with that time, and it cannot be doing anything good. OpenBSD is not designed to win benchmarks, but I wouldn't put it out of the running, even for "high-performance" stuff. It's also a matter of inherent design rather than "tweaking".
>From the old days, I had a choice of two card sorters, an old one at 1,000 cards per minute and a new one at 2,000 cards per minute. The newer faster model jammed often enough to make it essentially break-even as to which was the better to use. As the computers get faster, correctness will start to matter more than performance. Actually, the more performant, the more that correctness will matter (handling the wreckage). Now to get that correctness on modern high-speed stuff, your best ally is likely the old slow hardware. Ironic?
