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25 Apr 2024 00:03:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: An Open Letter to Joel Hruska from the developers of POV-Ray  
From: Ross
Date: 17 Aug 2004 10:30:19
Message: <4122167b$1@news.povray.org>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:4121a4a9@news.povray.org...
> In article <41219ce7@news.povray.org> , "Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress>
wrote:
>
> > Hmm. It seems to me that the letter (Chris' posting) was saying "our
> > benchmark file makes heavy use of noise because it's a good measurement
of
> > CPU performance," whereas you were saying "mediasky.pov makes heavy use
of
> > noise and is therefore a bad measurement of CPU performance."
>
> But that is not what I said.  I said that "mediasky.pov" uses it
> *exclusively*, which says exactly nothing about the use of noise in the
> benchmark file.  Everything else is something you are reading into what we
> say but that we do not say at all.
>

Reading into it is exactly what the intended audience will do. In my
opinion, you are presenting too much information at one time to that
audience. If you don't like how Slime interpreted it, imagine how less
technically astute users would interpret it.

-r


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