PC-BSD 10.0 vs. PC-BSD 9.2 vs. Ubuntu 13.10 Benchmarks
PC-BSD 10.0 struggles in many benchmarks in its "out of the box" configuration due to mainline Clang not yet having OpenMP support for multi-threading.
Ubuntu 13.10 generally did the best when it came to CPU benchmarks compiled from source due to it using GCC by default in place of LLVM Clang. Again, other tests may come later on Phoronix (pending sufficient interest) comparing the same compiler on each operating system while this article was intended to test the defaults of each operating system. PC-BSD 10.0 is faster than PC-BSD 9.2 while its use of Clang by default leads to some losses depending upon the workload. The ZFS PC-BSD 10.0 results are also positive but there are some worries about potentially unsafe handling of the file-system with some of the disk results reporting numbers that are too fast. Graphics tests and other FreeBSD/PC-BSD 10.0 benchmarks are also forthcoming on Phoronix. Have other test requests? Let us know!
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