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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:09:43 -0500
From:      "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>
Subject:   Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
Message-ID:  <200410081109.43273.algould@datawok.com>
In-Reply-To: <D05F4267-1943-11D9-B4B9-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com>
References:  <1f9.7520fc.2e98121d@aol.com> <D05F4267-1943-11D9-B4B9-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com>

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On Friday 08 October 2004 11:05 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 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

Well, that and:  "YMMV".

:-)

Andrew Gould



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