Red Hat To Support PowerPC, AltiVec

Steve Cowan writes "According to an article at MacCentral, Red Hat has announced that they will produce a GNUPro toolchain and cross compiler for AltiVec-enabled PowerPC processors (such as that found in the Power Mac G4). It will be interesting to see just what kind of performance gains this will bring, because many believe that the full potential of AltiVec is far from tapped."

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yeah yeah fp

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Lethyos]

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Re:I Hate Slashdot :-)

[slugfro]

STOP POSTING COMMENTS TO SLASHDOT UNTIL THE SUBSCRIPTION GOES AWAY! Screw this shit! Let's take OUR content and go home!

Looks like this did not quite work. I did actually get to read your post though before it got modded down. ;]

keep going....

[phallen]

... Now just dissable the right-mouse button on Apple stories and complete the theme!

If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, take a look at the Title and section banners.

Re:keep going....

[nullard]

Err... MacOS X has built-in support for multi-button mice.

MacOS 9 can do it with a number of different drivers.

Apple doesn't sell Macs with two-button mice because the focus group testing they did for Lisa development was conducted when few people outside of places like Xerox were using mice. When they tried to teach people to use two-button mice they kept asking "which button do I press" and looking at the mouse. The testers using single-button mice benefited from the easier learning curve.

The end result: one-button mice are easier for newbies. If you're not a newbie, but a two- (in my case 4- w/ a wheel) button mouse.

Re:keep going....

[Anonymous Coward]

So what you are saying is that it is easier to remember Option-click, Apple-click, etc. than to remember left button, right button.

Re:keep going....

[Anonymous Coward]

I have five buttons and no steering wheel ?:->

Re:keep going....

[Karma Sink]

No, what s/he's saying is that newbies don't use or need contextual menus. On the mac, all of the options for which you would need a contextual menu in the finder are contained in drop-downs. With your browser, the contextual menus can be accessed by just holding down the button for a few seconds.

Re:Time to convert all those Mac users ;)

[linzeal]

Not stateside where the VW is still enshrined as the neccesary hip car for the up and coming hipster, got that daddy-o. FREAK OUT, call up some cool cats and lets make a scene.