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by autoexecbat 660 days ago
It's the compilers.

> Clear Linux makes use of compiler function multi versioning, performance-minded defaults, aggressive compiler CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS defaults, optional AVX-512 usage for more libraries, and many other patches and optimizations in the name of delivering the greatest x86_64 Linux performance.

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They even go so far as to encourage filesystem journaling to happen less rigorously. A lot of interesting patches in their repo.

Good for fanciful numbers, perhaps not some work or scenarios