From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUnPK-00072D-Ro for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:27:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CC85E06B7; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.153]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDA5E06B7 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so1053273yxp.46 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:27:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ScY/uf3wLnVbrJQhA9gi5B4Cu8MGt7vMfS7/RtEEiyM=; b=n8i/EsEe1NfljppssDe8ABEJpwpcUzwENjZKxHi5IFzM7Xr333HkbD8yIwF6DLzzWm mkyYhfLDbzLWbzrsCGp9db55kG69Ol8NBl8hEzBAywLadCVhQSjbDSWZVFuJrwPK3RB0 OrROVL3ykmE9hAe8+ShVNcJQ0lltI+UGt9QjM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=oGpNoDB4J4PkU3jy058wHK+AdWdnzoNMZ2InEYDujqHwbDPq49TptvaNC0D3dvRJwr /IX7ld9V3ajIaV4rHnr7Q/h7ldnbycug6mT5bYz0HGLzOYJyItGr5NMVQZoUPUUbEn1Y qpPFwMfXlK6owdc7DDBloPfvQ90JnHwK1o1B4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.146.14 with SMTP id t14mr103004ybd.98.1233775652379; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:27:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <58965d8a0902032222x6d2f61b1q1f951a80d7d7701a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:27:32 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 966aa86f8fd6985f Message-ID: <58965d8a0902041127h4b5564c9k11694702c7d464d5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b95f2bdd-0c88-4b08-bb8f-88d842c3d952 X-Archives-Hash: 6aeb89fe874aac4c4c3e645b2496d4fb On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > > >> >> One *BIG* difference is when the GPUs on video cards are used >> >> as co-processors on systems. ATI and Nv are working on making >> >> general purpose "C" languages for programs to take advantage >> >> of the power of the GPU. Look for Gentoo to beat the other >> >> distros, by the very nature of how it compiles code for >> >> everything. > > >> http://funroll-loops.info/ > > > According to your logic, Nvidia and ATI(AMD) are ricers....? > > > http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15886 > > Or maybe the folks at CMU are ricers? > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html > > Surely these folks at StonyBrook are ricers? > http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/fir/ > > Not to mention these folks at Stanford, > http://novembertech.blogspot.com/2006/10/stanford-atis-gpu-can-calculate-much.html > > > And all of these scientists are ricers? > http://gpgpu.org/ > > > I count myself proud to be among this company > of "ricers" as you put it...... > > > > James It's not my site... I was just putting it out there in case anyone hadn't seen it before. It's oooooooooooold. I'm a happy Gentoo user for many years. :) Paul