12 Oct
2012
12 Oct
'12
10:49 p.m.
On 12 Oct 2012, Darrell Anderson stated:
Phoronix also specializes in (usually really, really bad) benchmarks.
"Old" also means "slow" to these people -- even though new software
is
almost always slower than old software, they imagine that a constant
process of fierce optimization has actually sped it up, and the power of
the placebo effect takes over.
Wrappers are also especially bad, because, y'know, it's a function call
and they are really expensive, right? (Er, no.)
--
NULL && (void)
Most
disconcerting to me was the absolute lack of any
positive commentary whatsoever. Is this really what FOSS has turned into?
I hope not. :-)
Considering the nature of the Phoronix web site, I imagine readers and
forum participants are bleeding edge types. Anything determined to be
"old" by such people means obsolete and a waste of time. "Old"
things
are not "shiny."