On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 04:33 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 15:24 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Eric Springer wrote: > > > Especially considering how many people will use these benchmarks to make > > > conclusions about Fedora, we should make sure it presents as best as it > > > can. > > > > I think we should rather do an informative press campaign on the lines > > of "Why Phoronix benchmarks are utter bullsh*t". > > > > Kevin Kofler > > > > Kevin, > > I must admit that I didn't expect such childish reaction from someone > like you. > > You don't like Phoronix' benchmark? Why? What should they have done > differently? Have you ever contacted Phoronix (E.g. Using their forums) > and tried to resolve these issues? Did they refuse? > Yes, encoding MP3 is rotten way to benchmark a file system, but some of > these benchmarks -do- show anomalies, and simply ignoring these > anomalies while FUD'ing the messenger (Phoronix in this case) is > childish. > > Might I remind everyone here that Phoronix was the first to offer a > comprehensive benchmark suite to the OSS world. (Google back to 5-10 > years ago and you'll see an assortment of half-backed benchmarks that > never really worked... and no, glxgears is not a benchmark!) > Instead of throwing mud at Phoronix, we (as in, all the people that have > grievances with this benchmark suite) -should- concentrate in trying > help Phoronix improve their benchmarking suite. > > - Gilboa > I apologize in advance, for the overly harsh language. (Not specifically directed at you, Kevin). - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
