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by mattst88 11y ago
I don't believe that's true, though there are multiple projects that offer that feature. lbzip2.org and compression.ca/pbzip2 to name a couple.
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by mattst88 11y ago
Compiling #include <stdint.h> uint64_t inc(uint64_t x) { return x + 1; } With -O0 gives me: 48 83 c0 01 add $0x1,%rax and with -O2: 48 8d 47 01 lea 0x1(%rdi),%rax That is, both are four
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by mattst88 11y ago
That's quite a claim. I agree that most uses of these operators as an expression are not wise. Some are though. As a counter-claim, I offer: array[i++] = this; array[i++] = that; array[i++] = the_other; which also extends ni
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by mattst88 11y ago
Would be nice to indicate in the title that the article is about AMD's proprietary drivers, rather than the free software drivers in Mesa.
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by mattst88 11y ago
Indeed. The x86 equivalent gem ( http://dflund.se/~john_e/gems/gem0001.html ) makes a point to note that. Odd that it's not mentioned on the m68k page. For what it's worth, my copy of the C11 spec says
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by mattst88 11y ago
The documentation isn't released yet (it usually trails the hardware release by a few months) but when it is available it will be located on the website of Intel's Open Source Technology Center: https://01.org/linu
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by mattst88 11y ago
I suspect that the overwhelming majority of cases that warrant inline assembly would not benefit if it was instead a function call out to something you've linked in. That is, most inline assembly is a small snippet of optimized code th
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by mattst88 11y ago
The lack of ports (notably ethernet) is minorly annoying to me, but much worse than that is the totally inadequate cooling. My 2013 15" MBP quickly overheats and thermally throttles when compiling. Maxing the fans doesn't help muc
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by mattst88 11y ago
Congrats on finishing. Your experience sounds a lot like mine.
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by mattst88 12y ago
Not in itself, no. I'd be happy to have a PhD writing unit tests for me, but if they're overqualified for that (which I think is the assumption we're making) I'd probably rather have them working on a harder problem. I t
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by mattst88 12y ago
I saw him speak last night, and he had what looked like a Thinkpad X60 -- http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/ibm-lenovo-thinkpad-x60-c...
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by mattst88 12y ago
Distance, as well as population, is a factor in the mean center of population. Even today there isn't close to a majority of the population living west of the Mississippi.
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by mattst88 12y ago
Tessellation shaders were a part of GL 4.0. See https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilit...
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by mattst88 12y ago
> Primitive values are automatically initialized to 0 in C. No, they're not. Automatic variables without an initializer have an indeterminate value. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6212921/is-un-init
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by mattst88 12y ago
We know how successful karma/reputation systems are at encouraging users to contribute good content. The unexpected thing I've learned from Stack Overflow is that the reputation system, when it doesn't work as expected, can a
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by mattst88 13y ago
> it seems completely reasonable to me Fifteen hours in the county jail seems reasonable for the theft of a nickel? I hope you're not making our laws.
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by mattst88 13y ago
OpenGL 3.3 (plus many extensions), in fact. :)
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by mattst88 13y ago
The article's title is rather misleading as the article has nothing to do with Linux. The Playstation 4's operating system is in fact rumored to be based on FreeBSD, not Linux, and the article even says as much. Beyond this, I don
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by mattst88 13y ago
That's a Westmere from Jan 2010. Westmere -> Sandy Bridge -> Ivy Bridge -> Haswell. Comparing with something from 3.5 years and 3 generations ago is useful?
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by mattst88 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. It uses the external libmwaw library, like it already uses libwpd (for WordPerfect) and libwps (for Microsoft Works).
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by mattst88 13y ago
> “Some encryption effects erasure of the encrypted data (so it ceases to exist), in which case decryption constitutes re-creation of the data, rather than simply unlocking still-existing data,” Shellow wrote in a court filing. (.pdf) If
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OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance with Open Source drivers on Intel Ivy Bridge(paranormal-entertainment.com)
3 points by mattst88 14y ago|0 comments
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Another victory for open-source drivers: Intel submits results for OpenGL ES 3.0(paranormal-entertainment.com)
2 points by mattst88 14y ago|0 comments
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by mattst88 14y ago
We (the Linux GL driver team) are planning for a February release of our driver that is ES 3.0 compliant.
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by mattst88 14y ago
> Intel graphics card don't count if you're doing serious 3D work. (I started work on the 3D driver team at Intel in July, but everything I say is my own opinion.) Historically, I think you might be right. Lately (the last few years) I
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by mattst88 14y ago
Why don't we just start using the actual unit of Energy (joules) instead of Power times Time, i.e., Energy per Time times Time?
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by mattst88 14y ago
It's interesting that you mention Theo, since apparently the reason OpenBSD exists is because he couldn't get along with the other core NetBSD developers.
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by mattst88 14y ago
Gentoo developers elect its Council, and the Foundation members (large overlap with the developers set) elect the Trustees.
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by mattst88 14y ago
I don't really know anything about those drivers (they're not handled by the open source team). No one on the open source team likes them either. It has seemed to me that using these PVR chips has always been a stop gap measure for Atom unt
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by mattst88 14y ago
Intel was the first vendor to have open source OpenGL 3.0 drivers, and have really driven Mesa development for the last few years. That hardly feels like "no features at all." Disclaimer: I'm starting at Intel on the open source graphics te

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