<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Can you quantify your productivity gains that come from pushing checkpoints instead of waiting for a semantically meaningful point to merge and push?</div>
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</blockquote></div><br></div></div>I can quantify the losses from the changed you propose, which is all I need to do. </div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Do share.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div style>Its more work for me. Clearly you are asking me to do something I do not currently do. A loss.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail_extra">There are no "gains" from a baseline. This is</div><div class="gmail_extra">a point I have made multiple times. Changes must be justified.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"></div></blockquote></div></div><br>I provided a long list of justifications that you have not responded to. There is a great deal of empirical evidence to back my claims.</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>I have responded to each and every point carefully. You need to listen.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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