[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] pzucchel:
Hi BobsBbq, you could be surprised by my answer, but i actually agree with you. I also tried multiple times to get an answer from Daeron - if you read the thread i was always very encouraging about his effort, and i got no reply. What was my conclusion? if he doesn't comment even about compliments....he must be very busy and little time to spend beyond loading ROMs and benchmarking!

I agree: this thread could be better organized, in the sense that multiple people volunteered for helping or contributing, and there was no feedback. From what i see, only two persons were in the position of posting measurements.

I don't believe it is a personal matter, or a matter of arrogance. Actually, the few answers i saw from Daeron were inviting to cool down some integralists supporting one or the other cook. But again, some users spend 24 hours connected to XDA for the pleasure of answering anybody, others spend few minutes per day.

Your battery comment is very interesting, since it shows we have multiple axes for judging a ROM. You could be surprised again, i charge my HD every evening, if i am travelling I have an external recharger....so i don't care at all about my battery life, i probably never ended a battery charge once since the HD came out!

However, think if we would have a battery column added to the spreadsheet: You should WEIGHT your that column a lot, i will WEIGHT that column to zero.

This is the sense - in my opinion - of this thread: provide interested people with raw numbers that can guide them to the right choice of ROMs. Admittedly, not everybody (at least not me!) can try all ROMS and all version posted on this forum.

We could argue about the sense of a final score to rank the roms: to me, it doesn't make much sense, I am recomputing my own score putting weights where i care.

What does it mean in practical terms? my score is

result= a1*c1+a2*c2+a3*c3+...aN*cN

the a1, a2, ...aN are my weights, the c1, c2,...cN are the values in the columns of the spreadsheet, or their inverse 1/c in case "the lower, the better".

Daeron "score" is a special case of this general formula, where the a1, a2, ...aN are computed according to the "best" result, so that result=1=100% if one ROM will win ALL columns. there are infinite^N choices of weight, he has chosen one which is as good as any other!

In my case, I like to put some a's to zero (i don't do 3D graphics...), some of them are the best 1/c, some of them are 1/2c if i really care a lot, some of them are 2c if the result is of the type "the lower the better" and i want to emphasize it more than twice another one which is set as c, etc.etc.

This is called scalar product of vectors, weighted average, linear combination, etc.

For the mathematicians, it says how much a ROM approximates your ideal ROM that you define by a direction in a N-dimensional space :D

In conclusion, i smile in seeing religious wars about this data. There is no single number that can quantify/qualify a ROM, this is obviously true. On the contrary, many numbers could provide - to an intelligent reader - very useful information. And if somebody is spending their own free time to provide to others some of these numbers....what's wrong?

Thanks Houm, Thanks Daeron even if you don't answer everybody!

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