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Interview with Adrian Silasi of SiSoftware

Posted by timothy on from the benchmarks-are-discolored-bottoms dept.

dreamchaser writes: "Many Slashdot readers are no doubt familiar with SiSoftware's Sandra benchmarking/system analysis tool. Here is a brief interview with the head honcho at SiSoftware, C. Adrian Silasi. Note that there will be a Linux version of Sandra coming out, which I think is very good news for the Linux benchmarking situation. Shameless plug of course, as I conducted the interview. I think it is a good fit for Slashdot, though."

8 comments

  1. Already Compatible... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Looks like it already works with linux... Seems to say so here anyway.

    1. Re:Already Compatible... by PostNuker · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It's not linked to anything, so it must mean 'in process'. Adrian states within the interview that it is being ported to Linux, so if anyone should know what is up - it would be him :) I like SANDRA, it gives you great info about the system as a whole. Benchmarks are benchmarks...you know how that goes. But, I am very much looking forward to the Linux version, when completed. Nice little interview.

    2. Re:Already Compatible... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Extremely good point... Kind of an oversight on my part.

  2. Linux was lacking benchmarking tools ... by frankske · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know there's bonnie, and ap, and a few others (don't forget BOGOmips ;-)), but an "all-round" benchmarking tool like Sandra is something that's missing ... Glad they'll port Sandra!

  3. good fit my left eye by tongue · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shameless plug of course, as I conducted the interview. I think it is a good fit for Slashdot, though

    the number of comments here would tend to say otherwise...

    1. Re:good fit my left eye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I disagree.

      Timothy just didn't feel like posting this frontpage, and rarely anybody reads beyond that.

      I definitely think this is good--though I question whether /. should really be an announce-list for software, I think the interview is definitely nice and adding in the mention of linux support was nice.

  4. The pertinent line... by chennes · · Score: 1
    Yes, Sandra is being ported to Linux (RedHat/Mandrake). The hardest part is to port the interface (from MFC), the rest are just normal C++ classes, hopefully it should go quicker... It's just a question of time.

    This is the Linux-related sentence - not very descriptive. From personal experience I can say that the UI is nearly always the most time-consuming part, whether for a port or a complete re-write (assuming it's not a kludge job). I mean, it's just a matter of time before Linux takes over the world, right? Soon, I hope??

  5. My God Stands before me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it is our God Haile Silasi in disguise! Light the reefer, our God has come!