It is time to get the garments ready:

"optimized client"



Again!!!!! YAwn!!!!!

Optimized clients are NOT available for every OS/CPU/... therefore they are NOT the solution. Of course, you want the inflated numbers they generate and care less about the actual results they produce.

Old credit system = grant based upon benchmarks (some of which were falsified)

New credit system = grant based upon actual work produced (not hours ran, Stevea ... output)

Was the old system fair - no

Is the new system fair - no (but it's a lot closer than the old system)

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It may very well be annoying, irritating, frustrating and confusing that the results vary up and down as much as they do.

However, I took all of the results available at the moment for stevea's machines [just under 80 of them], and run it through a spreadsheet.
The total score according to the old credit system is 8337.37, with the new 8749.01 - around 5% higher than the old system.
The variance, however, is about 10x the old system - 6.08/60.88.
Average score per workunit is 106.9 vs 112.17.

I'm not sure if this was a meaningfull excercise (I probably should also split it per machine to see if any particular machine is much worse than any other machine).

But I guess if stevea would rather have stable but 5% lower scores, the old system would be better... I prefer a bigger variation and higher score myself [partially because several of my machines are Linux-based, where the benchmark score is terribly low but the credit for Linux is actually on par with Windows - there's a factor of 2.3 difference between the claimed and granted credit because the Windows systems are "pulling it up"].

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Mats

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