Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:01:20 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 23:58:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On August 26, 2000 at 21:14:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
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>>>Restricting things to one piece of hardware is stifling, not leveling.
>>
>>
>>I don't see why competing with equal weapons, especially when it is the platform
>>99% of people on earth is using, is such a problem.
>
>Because you are wrong. 99% of the people on earth don't have the same
>processor at the same clock frequency with the same amount of memory and
>disk space. Some still have P6/200's (I have one at home and a lab full
>at the office). Some still use 486's. A few have 1ghz PIII's. So the
>world is _not_ uniform platform. If you stick on X86, do you let 600 and
>1.3 ghz processors in? Do you make everybody use 1ghz processors? Is
>that what everybody in the world is using?
>
>I think this line of reasoning is simply flawed, in a very basic way.
Yes and no.
Follow my reasonning:
99% of people are using the x86 architecture, so let's make it a x86 platform
event. So it means something to most people.
Then if we make a x86 platform event, so why don't we make it a uniform speed
uniform platform event? If somebody agrees to run his program on the same
platform as the other ones, why wouldn't he agree to run at the same speed?
Unless he knows that his program is weaker, of course.
One thing leads to another. Once we agree to run on a given platform, it seems
natural that everybody runs at the same speed.
Because what most people are interested in is "what program is the best", not
"who is able to put the bucks and come with the fastest hardware".
>>Maybe you forget that there are people out there using our chess programs. And
>>these people are using x86 computers, mostly.
>
>So? In the USA, most people drive a GM product. Do we not allow Chrysler and
>Ford into the auto races based on that reason?
Your comparisons with cars and sports are getting boring.
Come on, I know you can do better. I could have predicted your move...
Can I help you? Why don't you take for example the evolution of the animal
species?
Obviously they have not chosen to be "uniform platform". Aha! So uniform
platform is stupid. Period.
But anyway, all these comparisons miss the point.
My point is that most people are interested to know how programs perform on the
kind of computers they have.
Let's take a PC of reasonnable power, give it to everybody, and see what
happens.
The idea is simple. I can understand it is not to your taste, but would
certainly help to get more attention from the public audience.
Christophe
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