performance tests conducted on 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10rc

[Matthias Klose]

Mirco Müller schrieb:
> Greetings everybody!
> 
> 	Phoronix ran performance tests on releases 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10rc.
> 8.10 seems to be the worst performer of the quartet. Have a look at
> their summarizing article:
> 
>         http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bench_2008&num=1
> 
> 	They are trying to be fair and point out possible causes for the
> slowdowns. While this has only been tested on a ThinkPad T60 their
> initial findings are nothing to write home about. Most influential are
> crucial parts like the kernel, gcc, Xorg, graphics-drivers.
> 
> Time for alarm-bells to go off?

"Java: In the Java SciMark computational tests, the performance was slower in the Ubuntu 8.xx
releases. This may be explained by IcedTea, but that shouldn't be since it's derived from OpenJDK
and Sun's official Java source-code."

please note, that the name of this test is misleading, it's not Java at all, so any conclusion about
 OpenJDK/IcedTea is plain wrong.

  Matthias