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

[James]

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> 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