Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:05:46 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worldstone rules (was: Re: Amazing :-)) Message-ID: <35077432.46050201@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <1877.889670113@time.cdrom.com>
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All very true.
So I guess the point is: There should be a set of rules somewhere
for people who insist on comparing Worldstones.
For people who dont follow the rules: Dont advertise your times
unless you're prepared to give full disclosure.
I also agree that the numbers dont mean much at all but it is nice
to know the ballpark figures for various classes of machines.
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > We cant have formal rules for the majority of -CURRENT users
> > because most people are running -CURRENT on their one and only
> > machine and dont have much choice as to their /etc/make.conf
> > settings.
>
> Those people don't have to post worldstone ratings either, they can
> just chatter informally about what they're doing, but if we're going
> to have a pissing contest then let's do it right. :-) [and there does
> appear to be a set of folks on this list who are perpetually keen to
> do this, so let's not get into a debate on the merits of such contents
> please :)].
>
> And really, for the rest I have to say that the numbers are too
> meaningless to be useful. So you post your workstone rating without
> TCL, and Joe posts his without profiled libs, and Harry posts his with
> Kerberos enabled and what use are the numbers then to me? They're
> useless since to meaningfully compare them with anything I've now got
> to go compile my own tree 3 times with these various options set, and
> I'm as unlikely to do that as your -current users with one box are
> likely to spam themselves. And if a number has no comparative value,
> why even bother to communicate it to anyone else? :-)
>
> Jordan
>
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