Initial Benchmarks Of CentOS 8.0 & CentOS Stream On Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 27 September 2019 at 10:16 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 3 Comments.
Of course, don't expect across-the-board improvements in all workloads.
Besides the updated GCC compiler, updated parts of the toolchain like the GNU C Library (glibc) can also account for nice improvements in performance with CentOS 8.
MariaDB runs a great deal faster on CentOS 8.0 over CentOS 7.7 thanks to years of open-source improvements throughout the stack.
Redis also sees nice performance improvements.