baseline 2 x Intel Xeon E5420 testing with a Dell 0H603H and AMD ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. without libguard: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.49GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0H603H, Chipset: Intel 5000X MCH, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2998GB PERC 6/i, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-45-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.4-1ubuntu3 + LLVM 3.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better without libguard . 22.42 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better without libguard . 98.39 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 4GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better without libguard . 2133.35 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 4GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better without libguard . 42.90 |===================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 7.83 |====================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better without libguard . 15684056.10 |=============================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Integer Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better without libguard . 1 |========================================================= Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 4147 |====================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better without libguard . 5462 |====================================================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better without libguard . 113.05 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better without libguard . 109 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better without libguard . 51 |======================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better without libguard . 810.19 |==================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better without libguard . 15641 |===================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 23.29 |===================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 7.27 |====================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 118 |======================================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: Convex Trimesh Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 2.57 |====================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 223.19 |==================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 118.94 |==================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 26.89 |===================================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 24.82 |===================================================== GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 14.38 |===================================================== Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better without libguard . 1150.85 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better without libguard . 434.43 |==================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better without libguard . 8673.26 |===================================================