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Kicking Off April With An Eight-Way BSD/Linux Comparison

Clear Linux had a narrow lead in Himeno while the Clang-used FreeBSD/TrueOS releases were much slower.

Due to it using Clang by default, FreeBSD 11 and TrueOS led in the timed compilation tests.

The GCC-using operating systems had close to the same performance in C-Ray.