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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