FreeBSD Performance on MacBook Pro Retina v2 Intel Core i7-3615QM testing with a Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (425.0.0.0.0 BIOS) and Intel HD 4000 981MB on Gentoo 2.8 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (425.0.0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 981MB, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Gentoo 2.8, Kernel: 5.16.2-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5, Display Server: X Server 1.21.1.3 + Wayland, Display Driver: NVIDIA, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 21.3.4, Compiler: GCC 11.2.1 20220115 + Clang 13.0.0 + LLVM 13.0.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (425.0.0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 981MB, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Gentoo 2.8, Kernel: 5.16.2-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5, Display Server: X Server 1.21.1.3 + Wayland, Display Driver: NVIDIA, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 21.3.4, Compiler: GCC 11.2.1 20220115 + Clang 13.0.0 + LLVM 13.0.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (425.0.0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 981MB, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Gentoo 2.8, Kernel: 5.16.2-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5, Display Server: X Server 1.21.1.3 + Wayland, Display Driver: NVIDIA, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 21.3.4, Compiler: GCC 11.2.1 20220115 + Clang 13.0.0 + LLVM 13.0.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 BLAKE2 20170307 Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 4.41 |=========================== Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 4.33 |=========================== Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 4.37 |=========================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: H2 msec < Lower Is Better rav1e 0.5 Speed: 6 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 0.775 |========================== Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 0.776 |========================== Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 0.701 |======================= rav1e 0.5 Speed: 10 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 2.311 |========================= Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 2.313 |========================= Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 2.377 |========================== x265 3.4 Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 17.41 |========================= Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 17.69 |========================== Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 17.82 |========================== Stockfish 13 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 6671895 |======================== Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 6804104 |======================== Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 6801127 |======================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 36.38 |========================= Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 36.21 |========================= Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 38.09 |========================== m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 240.50 |========================= Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 239.49 |========================= Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 238.54 |========================= librsvg Operation: SVG Files To PNG Seconds < Lower Is Better Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld mitigation ... 55.78 |========================== Gentoo Glibc CFLAGS clearworld -mitigations . 54.58 |========================= Gentoo Glibc Default -mitigations ........... 53.78 |=========================