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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!

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On 8/31/2011 6:21 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>> On 8/30/2011 6:32 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>>>> On 8/29/2011 9:56 AM, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:
>>>>> In article<4E5BB93F.2030406@SPAM.comp-arch.net>,
>>>>> Andy \"Krazy\" Glew<andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net>    wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/29/2011 4:56 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip interesting discussion>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am collecting these against the next time I am involved in an effort
>>>> like MMX.  Where shortsighted people will say "all we need to support is
>>>> 4:2:2 YUV, and we should add a special instruction just for that",
>>>> rather than more general support.  Or vice versa.
>>>
>>> Please consider putting your collections on bitsavers, or somewhere,
>>> so that the knowledge doesn't get lost.
>>>
>>> /BAH
>>
>> I am putting my collection on comp-arch.net --- my own personal
>> wikipedia.  I had not considered it as Bitsavers, but fair enough.
>
> Not wiki.   Definitely not wiki.  I don't care where as long as all
> your tradeoffs, which is the most important piece of designing but never
> gets published.  In our biz, our mistakes and initial desing reasonings
> rarely got put down on paper.
>
>>
>> Why "my own personal" - well, I started putting it on wikipedia, but got
>> tired of stuff being deleted by the wikipedia trolls.
>
>
> I have yet to believe anything on wiki.  I think of it as a non-feature
> and eventually dangerous.

Recording the design rationales, rejected alternatives, etc., is what I 
am trying to do with comp-arch.net.  Slowly. Very slowly. Proprietary 
FUD always gets in the way, usually due to self-censorship (e.g. I won't 
post this now, because that would give you a clue as to what I am 
working on. Even though everything is public domain.)

Are you against wikis overall, or just wikipedia?

Like I said above, wikipedia is a loss for this sort of thing (1) 
because stuff gets deleted, and (2) because wikipedia wants 
authoritative references. I am trying to record folklore, less formal stuff.

But wikis - easy to edit hypertext - are my preferred way of recording 
such stuff.

There is lossage because I don't have good diagram support on any wiki I 
know well.  And I need better security / delayed publication / 
distributed version control / offline access, etc.

But hypertext is the best way I know of to do this.  And wikis are the 
easiest form of hypertext to CREATE - perhaps not to read, but at the 
moment I am content creation limited. Must make composing the content as 
easy as possible.

So, therefore, comp-arch.net is largely a private and semipublic wiki. 
Mostly readable by the world; writable by only me and a few others.

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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-30 13:32 +0000
  Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-30 07:02 -0700
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2011-08-30 17:09 +0200
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-31 13:21 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-31 07:55 -0700
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:24 +1000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-09-01 08:28 -0700
            Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-02 13:44 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 04:30 +1000
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:26 +1000

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