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 1LUkbM-00086W-Bu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:27:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63CC5E0643; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C238E0643 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7864564D6F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:25:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.699 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.699 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.167, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id M3lYfHGzgGWC for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6263564D65 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUkYg-00011b-LI for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:25:02 +0000 Received: from 65.111.170.175 ([65.111.170.175]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:25:02 +0000 Received: from grante by 65.111.170.175 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:25:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh? Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <58965d8a0902032222x6d2f61b1q1f951a80d7d7701a@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.111.170.175 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c2bce2e1-c3a4-440a-ba45-cf4a6628cc33 X-Archives-Hash: 510e312965341a53c520db3e5b16da32 On 2009-02-04, 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...... And some of us count ourselves proud to be amongh the company of people who have a sense of humor..... ;) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! This PIZZA symbolizes at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL visi.com RECOVERY!!