Author: Don Dailey
Date: 14:46:03 12/19/97
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Hi Thorsten, I see that you have a K6 with limited memory so it was not possible for you to test any other way. But I do think it's more fair to test each program on the platform it runs best on. My new program completely sucks on a Pentium of any kind so I never test on a Pentium and I would consider a pentium test very unfair. Also my program runs very fast and therefore needs larger hash tables. I would consider a test with tiny hashtables unfair too. But if I tested your program vs mine using an emulator for your program on the Alpha, it would hardly be fair for me to say, "Is it my fault his program is less strong on my Alpha's?" This may sound like a silly example to you but keep in mind that the Pentium is FAR more common than your platform. You cannot pick out a platform and then criticize every program that doesn't run well under it. If the K6 becomes a huge success and becomes the common platform, then you may have a reasonable argument. It would be the same if I marketed my program (as a pentium program) even though it was designed and optimized for an Alpha. Everyone could legitimately claim it was weak and the burden would be on me to come up with a good pentium version or only market it for the Alpha's. But from now on I want to focus my discussions and energies on algorthims, problems sets and such. If you want to respond to this note I'll be glad to read your response but let's close this discussion soon ok? A whole lot of this is grey area semantics anyway. - Don
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