Clear Linux Concluding 2019 With ~7% Faster Performance For The Year, Some Open-Source Workloads Much Faster
When running these 80 tests on the Clear Linux releases from end of 2018 and end of 2018, 85% of the time the newest release was the fastest. Only in 12 tests was Clear Linux 31890 not the fastest, but in most of those cases the results were incredibly tight and effectively a toss-up. Only in 4 tests did Clear Linux 26970 perform more than 2% better than Clear Linux 31890.
If taking the geometric mean of the 80 tests, Clear Linux came out to being about 7.2% faster than at EOY2018. Not bad at all especially considering the additional mitigations / security changes introduced this year that Clear Linux still came out noticeably faster in real-world workloads.
All 80 benchmark results in full can be viewed via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.
Over the next two weeks will be more end-of-year 2019 Linux performance comparisons including with other distributions where possibly, but as a teaser, none of them were able to score as many significant victories this year. Also worth reminding users of that beyond performance, Clear Linux in 2019 introduced their developer desktop, a new GUI-based installer that is much nicer to use for Linux desktop/workstation users, improved documentation, more engagement with the community, and other milestones. It should be exciting to see what direction Clear Linux leads in 2020.
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