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

The single-threaded LAME MP3 performance did improve with the newer Clear Linux.

The Perl performance varied.

Redis saw some nice performance gains with the newest Clear Linux.

With some of the stress-ng kernel benchmarks, Clear Linux 12140 came out ahead of Clear Linux 6030.

The semaphores test in stress-ng was one of the biggest wins of today's 2016 comparison.

Those are the latest results I have to share today. Overall, the performance of Clear Linux this year varied from being the same, some cases of minor regressions, and in several cases there were notable performance wins with the newer Linux code, such as with the Intel OpenGL graphics performance. As you can see from the quick table above, the latest Clear Linux has clearly more green than this Intel OTC distribution from the start of 2016. Coming up in the next week or two will be a large Linux distribution performance compare to end out the 2016 performance numbers.