“Con Kolivas recently announced that his ConTest benchmark has
been completely rewritten by Aggelos Economopoulos in C. The new
version, v0.60, has been consolidated into one executable from
several bash scripts, offers compatibility with FreeBSD, and now
comes with a useful man page (under the BUGS heading, the man page
simply and humorously reports ‘yes’).“Read on for Con’s announcement, as well as some discussion
regarding the move away from scripts. Scrolling to the end of the
discussion you can view one of the first tests Con released with
this new version of his benchmarking tool. Note that the new
performance numbers are not directly comparable with the
old…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.