(edit) I still love you too! but i'm not changing what I wrote below! It's from the heart.

Correct, bb, it was a conscious decision (at last!)

Increasing render size obviously improves quality. Decreasing shading rate obviously improves quality. I was simply trying to compare the two methods of improvement side by side without any other factors involved.

But you are wrong, "WE" did not know the results already. YOU knew that already, and perhaps some others here. I, and many others, did not know. For me the comparison was a discovery, and there is nothing wrong with letting others know about it. Your sarcasm about me making an announcement of a "discovery" that sample rate can improve image quality (which is not what I announced at all) is really unbecoming.

Perhaps you would prefer it if I kept my little nonsense experiments to myself in future, since YOU already know the results of them?

I'm shaking my head in sheer disbelief here.
It's such a shame that genius so often comes at the expense of graciousness.

I'm sorry for being so outspoken and possibly annoying you, but really, bb, you deserve to be told. Please think on it.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)