Subject: Re: BOINC 4.09
From: Claude J Ortega
Date: 30/09/2004, 16:11
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

In article <lvU6d.497$d_7.225@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>, mutster8
_nospam_@netscape.net says...
FranticInFresno wrote:

Got a message logging on yesterday that BOINC 4.09 is available.

Any advantages/requirements to upgrading (from Win2k ver of BOINC v4.05)?
Special steps to avoid loss of data/credits?

TIA
FIF

Read in a BOINC forum that 4.09 is primarily a windows fix, one poster
mentioned that it gives a slower benchmark which would reduce your credits
over time.  Not sure if the slower benchmark remark is correct but am
leaving 4.05 on my system for the time being, it works fine in Linux.


I read that the programmers found that the compiler was optimizing out some of 
the benchmark code. They fixed that, so the benchmark is now producing the 
correct values.

4.09 works well on my WinXp systems.

-- Claude