@callahan I'm curious as to why you think Raion gets a pass for spreading disinformation and outright lies?
Speaking truth to power is not trolling.
Let's go through the points in the opening post:
- Raion claims MIPSPro has the "best code generation for all machines". This is demonstrably, provably false.
- Mburton points out Raion hates GNU and GCC. This is true, with listed evidence
- Raion claims Compilertron is hacked together. This is partially true, and I detailed later where it is not true.
- Mburton points out Raion bungled a sudo patch, that was subsequently retracted. Again true.
- Raion claims the SGUG GCC builds don't offer any performance improvement over MIPSPro. This is laughably false and easy for anyone to test.
- Mburton implies Raion doesn't understand compilers and doesn't understand the details of the changes made to GCC well enough to make any claims about it. This is provably true, as Raion is not a developer and has never had professional work experience in any development capacity, whereas the developers working on the SGUG GCC are all professional developers with years of experience writing C and C++.
- Raion claims Nekoware II is under development. This cannot be proved as nothing has been published.
- Mburton points out nothing has been published.
- Raion invites people to use gitea over Github, stating Github is a "corporate bigwig".
- Mburton points out this as an example of Raion furthering his ideologies.
Mburton closes with
- stating Raion has trashed a year's worth of other people's hard work
- which is verifiably true; see IN forums archives
- stating Raion has created no tangible output
- which is also true; he has created no published code or proofs of concept
- suggests Raion get more experience before making unfounded statements without technical merit
Per Wikipedia:
"In internet slang, a
troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain. "
Mburton's remarks were not extraneous, off-topic, or digressive. They were in direct response to statements already made by Raion. If Raion was "inflamed" by statements of fact that disprove his statements, that does not mean that the statements were false, and it does not imply the statements were trolling.
It's most interesting to me that when someone writes verifiable, scientifically-provable truths that run counter to Raion's wild, unfounded claims, it is characterized as "trolling".
In truth, if a person posts something on Raion's forum that Raion disagrees with, factual or not, it either gets deleted or Raion counters it with FUD. If the poster continues dissent, Raion will delete the post or will lock the thread.
Dissenting opinions are not allowed on IN, as dissent leads to analysis, and analysis leads to disproving the dozens of myths and lies that Raion has spread about IRIX and SGI for years. Irixnet is not a place for open discussion of technical efforts. It's a place of worship, for faith-based engineering in the absence of truth.
@callahan how does it make you feel when you see neophyte SGI hobbyists avoid SGI Fuels because "they have overheating issues"?
How about when they struggle to port modern code to MIPSPro because they mistakenly believe that GCC can't "align the memory stacks"?
Or when their threads are met with derision, or are locked or deleted because they dared to ask the wrong question?
It sickens me when I see some of the few people in the world that have an interest in this fascinating hardware and OS get misled, or worse, turned away, due to the actions of a petty little tin-pot dictator.