Quote Originally Posted by dAVE
My take on it all is that Seti has been trying to level out the playing field, especially in respect of Linux, which has been under claiming on all projects for a long time. The anti optimised clients bandwagon jumped on it and claimed that these clients were in fact cheats. There were then allegations that certain processors and operating systems were favoured by the regular code and the optimised clients levelled the playing field. Things got complicated when it was pointed out that the optimised clients used things like SSE2 to increase their scores whilst many of the projects did not use them, everything then got very nasty with claims that some of Crunch3R’s credits had reached 60 for one WU. The sad thing is that many of these optimised clients/apps streamlined the code and actually made the WUs run faster leading to more science per host. The truth was, as usual, the first casualty. dAVE
Sorry made a new page over an important post