Bird and cpu clock / cores.

[Alarig Le Lay]

Hello,

On Sat 01 Nov 2025 21:48:22 GMT, Mike Neo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What's more important for a bird, the clock speed of a single processor
> core or the number of physical cores?
> For example, which is the better choice:
> 8x2.2 GHz or 4x3.8 GHz
> 
> Kind regards,
> Mike

I always prefer the performance per core. Even if bird3 is
multi-threaded, you’ll always have some locks between the threads (eg.
compute and actual next-hop from BGP using OSPF).
And on pure routing, the higher the frequency is, the fastest the packet
is routed.

-- 
Alarig