From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 11 21:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09153 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:40:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09128; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au (exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.94]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA30374; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:09:17 +1030 (CST) Received: from fang.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.2.5]) by exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id GWQLBZYP; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:09:45 +0930 Received: from eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au (eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.111]) by fang.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA09891; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:05:48 +1030 (CST) Received: from dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03855; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:05:48 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <35077432.46050201@dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:05:46 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer Organization: Defence Science Technology Organisation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worldstone rules (was: Re: Amazing :-)) References: <1877.889670113@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury PO Box 1500 Salisbury South Australia 5108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message