[TUHS] new paper comparing Unix kernel designs

A new paper comparing Unix kernel designs was published earlier today: Stergios Papadimitriou and Lefteris Moussiades Mac OS versus FreeBSD: A Comparative Evaluation [IEEE] Computer 52(2), 44--53, February 2018 https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.1451648 Despite the title, GNU/Linux also is included in the comparisons. The abstract is: Our fellow list member Larry McVoy, and his lmbench suite, are mentioned in the article, along with results of that suite. There are about 200 numbers in the two large tables of performance measurements, and while many are comparable across operating systems, there are some benchmarks that show up to a 40x difference between systems on the same hardware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------