Interactive benchmarks
Interactive benchmarks
Posted Sep 9, 2009 23:40 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338)In reply to: Interactive benchmarks by man_ls
Parent article: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements
> As to the benchmarks, the first test was how fast can he build the kernel using n processes.
To be fair, that benchmark is originally Con's, not Ingo's (Con's original announcement claims that "make -j4 on a quad core machine with BFS is faster than *any* choice of job numbers on CFS").
Posted Sep 10, 2009 9:52 UTC (Thu)
by man_ls (guest, #15091)
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More to the point: even when one side proposed invalid benchmarks, the other side was not able to come up with anything better. (And no, "beat them at their own benchmarks" is not a valid excuse; we are talking about engineering, not about marketing.)
Interactive benchmarks