[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-02-04, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>> >> 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.
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>> http://funroll-loops.info/
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> According to your logic, Nvidia and ATI(AMD) are ricers....?
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> http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html
> http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15886
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> Or maybe the folks at CMU are ricers?
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html
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> Surely these folks at StonyBrook are ricers?
> http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/fir/
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> Not to mention these folks at Stanford,
> http://novembertech.blogspot.com/2006/10/stanford-atis-gpu-can-calculate-much.html
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> And all of these scientists are ricers?
> http://gpgpu.org/
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> 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.....  ;)

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