Except, I'm pretty sure the gwan guys are just a very sophisticated group of trolls.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say if you test their web server yourself you'll find that their claims are false, and that the reason it's closed source is because the joke would be too obvious if we could simply take a quick look.
In any event this is all hilarious.
Now, I hope someone with the time and curiosity will do this.. and publish some actual benchmarks of gwan so this controversy can finally end.
In the last GWAN thread[1] a user[2] who said they have been using it for a year claimed it was all quite true. The intimation in this thread is that was actually the author himself sockpuppeting. Indeed, the account has only had 3 comments in the last year[3] until the whole GWAN thing, which is certainly suspicious, though certainly no proof.
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Well done.
Except, I'm pretty sure the gwan guys are just a very sophisticated group of trolls.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say if you test their web server yourself you'll find that their claims are false, and that the reason it's closed source is because the joke would be too obvious if we could simply take a quick look.
In any event this is all hilarious.
Now, I hope someone with the time and curiosity will do this.. and publish some actual benchmarks of gwan so this controversy can finally end.
In the last GWAN thread[1] a user[2] who said they have been using it for a year claimed it was all quite true. The intimation in this thread is that was actually the author himself sockpuppeting. Indeed, the account has only had 3 comments in the last year[3] until the whole GWAN thing, which is certainly suspicious, though certainly no proof.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109698
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ers35
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ers35
If you are interested in benchmarks of G-WAN, see [1].
To run a benchmark yourself, see [2].
[1]http://gwan.ch/benchmark
[2]http://gwan.ch/source/ab.c