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Would be nice to also see how long a FreeBSD buildworld takes :)

That'd be a fun test, too. One would need to control for disk io but definitely useful. I wonder how many HN readers run FBSD

RAM disk possibly?

Would be nice to make a simple one-click benchmark: download a VirtualBox VM and click Start — it boots mfsbsd and starts compiling to a RAM disk, measuring the time.

Too complicated. I was thinking just have some baseline numbers on a clean SSD and run the buildworld a bunch of times. Either would work tho the latter I'm confident I could do.

FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT on this very laptop.

I'm going to build an 1800X-based box in a few weeks (for games; planning to run Steam on a GNU/Linux distro), I'll want to see `make -j16 buildworld` for sure.

Got a blog or something you're going to post results to? I'm intrigued

Looking forward to that! Also would be nice see -j8 results.

Thanks for this.

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