[nycbug-talk] BSD shootout?

[Brian Gupta]

Looking at the FAQ, it seems they used to use Debian unstable, and
Gentoo but switched to Ubuntu.

Guessing they switched off of Debian Unstable and Gentoo as they
didn't want to benchmark on a moving target. Guessing they picked
Ubuntu, because Ubuntu is on a timed and fairly short 6 month release
cycle, so most of the time, the kernels/drivers will be newer than
than Debian Stable.

Quote:

"Since September 2008 new measurements have been recorded and
published more than 900 times. Fresh measurements are usually
published several times a week in response to some trigger event - a
new program was contributed, a new version of a programming language
implementation was released, a new version of Ubuntu was released."

Cheers,
Brian

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Matthew Story <matthewstory at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Mark Saad <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Matthew Story <matthewstory at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Matthew Story <matthewstory at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm a big fan of the debian shootout benchmarks, they seem to be a
>> >> (fairly) exhaustive, and (fairly) honest set of benchmarks.  I was
>> >> wondering
>> >> if anyone has ported this to BSD, couldn't find anything on BSD, but I
>> >> think
>> >> it would be interesting to compare the shootout benchmarks from various
>> >> flavors of Linux to various BSDs.
>> >>
>> >> The shootout code itself is python, so there should be no|little issue
>> >> getting that to run on BSD, but many of the compiled language tests are
>> >> compiled against Linux&glibc ... seems like it wouldn't be overly much
>> >> trouble, fun weekend project, but if someone has already done the work
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> Additionally if there were another similarly exhaustive and honest set
>> >> of
>> >> benchmarks out there that already compile cross *NIX, that would
>> >> suffice.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> regards,
>> >> matt
>> >
>> >
>> > Naturally, I forgot to post a link to the shootout benchmarks
>> >
>> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>> >
>> > --
>> > regards,
>> > matt
>> >
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>> Hey matt sounds like a cool idea, but if this is a debian thing whats
>> with all the Ubuntu stuff ?
>
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but Alioth is project hosting provided by the Debian
> project, shootout is hosted on Alioth because Debian agreed to host it, and
> the author/maintainer runs the shootouts on Ubuntu on various hardware.
>
> Ubuntu did sprout from the fertile loins of Debian once upon a time (wow, I
> feel old ... ), maybe that's one of the reasons Debian hosts this project at
> Alioth.
>
> Anyway, a couple of best guesses.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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> matt
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