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Neywiny • today at 2:40 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

So disappointing to see no direct numeric comparisons with the original.


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marcusbasant • today at 2:55 AM

(I am the author - posting from an alt here)

It's pretty tedious to compare - Have to run diags, take screenshots, set up watchers on a modern machine, run comparisons on the classic mac hardware, and then transfer those back from the mac to the modern machine (I haven't set up a network share solution for the mac yet, so each transfer is power down and transfer via SD card), run thru agent for validation and feedback, and repeat for each iteration.

I went thru a few rounds of this (about 4 release candidates) before i decided that what I had was Good Enough and published it. I have noticed that Claude tends towards this "circumcizing the moquito" sometimes in the qa/validation phase.

Here's what I was able to measure from the test log data that I did transfer across:

| Measure | MoofTCP | MacTCP 2.1 |

|---|---|---|

| ACK of an echoed keystroke (median) | 2.8 ms | 4.5 ms |

| ACK of an echoed keystroke (worst case) | 16.8 ms | 17.6 ms |

| Delayed-ACK stall on interactive data | none | none |

| Wikipedia Reader, follow a link | 51.7 s | 53.2 s |

| Fetch 10 MiB over TAP | about 47–49 KB/s | about 49 KB/s |

| Advertised TCP window | 8,192 | 4,220 |

| Transmit stalls and retransmissions on the real Mac | 0 | not measured |

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