Looking At GNU/Linux's Performance Over 2016 With Intel's Clear Linux

Next up are some disk/file-system focused tests.

Clear Linux 6030 and Clear Linux 12140 were tested "out of the box" via clean installations. Clear Linux does ship with various CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS by default in the name of performance compared to most other Linux distributions, for those who haven't tried this Intel Linux distribution yet. With SQLite the performance was unchanged.

In FS-Mark the performance looked from being unchanged to slightly lower, but it was a rather tight race.

The CompileBench performance popped up with the newer Clear Linux, but this isn't a pure disk benchmark.

With the CPU-focused benchmarks, the results vary from about being the same speed over the course of the year to being much faster with the newer Clear Linux thanks to the updated compiler stack, other newer upstream components, and other optimizations carried out by the Intel OTC developers.