Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?
Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:52:25
Message-Id:	`loom.20090204T164705-591@post.gmane.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh? by Hazen Valliant-Saunders

1	Hazen Valliant-Saunders <hazenvs <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4	> No they would never be useful for anything other then rendering
5	> bouncing bobbies! ;)
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7	Bouncing bobbies? Sound like a fraternity game for new recruits...
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11	So Searching and Sorting, are documented to orders of magnitude
12	faster on GPU (SIMD) machines. Are those 'bouncing bobbies'
13	algorithms that form much of our software foundation?
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18	How could you look at video or play video games without the GPU.
19	It's opening up and going mainstream. Gentoo is naturally positioned
20	to be the distro of choice. Watch, wait and learn.
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24	James