hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23:58PM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that > like to prove. In the end many of fefe's test programs did not actually > measure what he assumed they would.
and he was open to get patches to remedy those problems. general dislike of any benchmark in the world is also part of the openbsd culture just like some qualities of misc@ (although it's been quite quiet lately). if the numbers were better, the general sentiment would be rather different i believe. linux is faster in many respects (just look at zaurus) so what? i dont use openbsd for its speed, but on the other hand i dont downplay the importance of measuring things up and comparing it with the others once in a while. i am sure speed in the end is of councern, otherwise the os woudln't be in C but, whatchamacallit, python. some things can be measured actually quite easily: how much content a web server serves (not that much without sendfile()), how do the databases perform, etc, this is all benchmark in the end, and the programs doing the benchmarking are actually the daemons themselves. so there, everyone is benchmarking 24/7 :] -f -- dragon riders make good first impressions.
