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Where does DragonflyBSD win right now? I haven't looked into it and seen a place where it fits.

I too would like to see someone more verse in the nuances of the various BSDs answer this question, but I'll give it a go.

DragonflyBSD is:

- focused only on x64 architecture

- has an extremely small but exceptionally talented team of developers

- has it's own unique filesystem called Hammer (and work is being down on Hammer2 which is a complete rewrite)

- Network performance is particularly good with Dragonfly [1]

[1] https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/perf_cmp.pdf

Edit: typo

The benchmark's accuracy is debatable, as it does not put all parties in even ground[1], nor it list in detail everything used for all systems beyond Dragonfly BSD.

[1] FreeBSD's nginx port does not have a functional 'reuseport' compilation flag, which greatly impacts its performance in the benchmark, whereas Linux and Dragonfly BSD do have it in a functional state.

But I've heard the same points like 5 years ago. What had changed on a big scale?

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