how good is our SMP on 'modern' hardware?

[George Michaelson-2]

 From a position of *complete ignorance*, can I ask how good our SMP is?

Is it close to best of breed?

If (for instance, and its only an example) "grand central" works, and  
takes off in the wider software community, is NetBSD going to be a  
choice platform to run it on?

-G

[Matthew Mondor]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:10:47 +1000
George Michaelson <ggm@...> wrote:

>  From a position of *complete ignorance*, can I ask how good our SMP is?
>
> Is it close to best of breed?
>
> If (for instance, and its only an example) "grand central" works, and  
> takes off in the wider software community, is NetBSD going to be a  
> choice platform to run it on?
>
> -G
>

Since this isn't exactly netbsd-advocacy@..., I'm not sure if
posting these here is exactly on-topic (and it's using netbsd-5 rather
than -current).  However they might be of interest if general
performance is a concern:

http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/
http://mauthesis.com/19_ruby_bench_8_cores.html
--
Matt