From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 16:05:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D02616A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:05:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE6643D41 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34421199CE; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:05:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1f9.7520fc.2e98121d@aol.com> References: <1f9.7520fc.2e98121d@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:05:03 -0400 To: TM4525@aol.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: tedm@toybox.placo.com Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:05:08 -0000 On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:54 AM, TM4525@aol.com wrote: > You guys are the ones making the claims that 5.3 is "going to be > so great". I just wonder how you come to that conclusion if you don't > have any definitive tests. I dont have a release to test, so when its > done > I'll test it. I think it sums it up nicely then... TM is saying he doesn't like people claiming it's going to be great when there's no release yet. Kris posted benchmarks showing things have improved and he has reason to believe it will be better. TM replies not with his own benchmarks, but basically saying he refuses to test anything until it's released and that no one should claim it's better until it's marked as a "release" version. So conclude by saying that there is reason to believe the next version will be better, "Here's why", and that you can have the drawn out fight over performance benchmarks up the wazoo after the release is actually...well...released. TM won't be happy until it reaches this status anyway so there's no use in arguing it if only benchmarking "release" versions is one of the requirements for the argument to come to a conclusion. :-) -Bart