While picking up my computer so I could more easily pop a new hard drive inside, I managed to drop it on my thigh. Yes, I can definitely confirm quad damage. (groan, boo, hiss, I know...sorry)
And it doesn't matter which - most of you bally colonials can't tell the bloomin' difference.
Oh, we can usually tell that there's a difference. It's just that we always mistake one or the other for South African.
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Am I the only one who saw the headline and thought "A Microsoft Project arcade game would SUCK"? Probably. Time to get the corporate hand out from up in there...
if my temperature monitor is correct, i would guess nuclear fusion.
I know what you mean. As a programmer, I loves me my PPC970 (I have an affinity for big-endian machines, especially the PPC architecture -- them chips is purty), but the thing is so damn hot and power-hungry. Can't imagine what a dual-CPU system would do to my electric bill.
I must say, quite off-topicly (that's a word now, because I said so), that I visited an FCC office the other day, and the navels do look very nice. Well-kept. Not a piece of lint in the building. It's really no wonder that they do so much navel gazing. If I had one like theirs, I'd have a hard time taking my eyes off it.
And if they had used the IBM compilers on PPC, then they would have also gotten a huge increase there as well. I think it would have been better to use the Intel compiler on x86, and the IBM compiler on PPC, and then compare those results. If you're looking to see what the platforms can do, you might as well use the best compilers for those platforms. Seems to me you might get a more meaningful comparison. But, like you said, I might just be wrong again.
I did RTFA, and honestly, I don't know how I missed that. But, the other point still stands. It would have been better to use compilers better suited for each platform. Using GCC doesn't make it a level playing field. So much more work over the years has gone into tuning it for x86 than into tuning it for PPC. Stands to reason that maybe that would give the x86 an edge.
My mistake. I did RTFA, but I somehow missed that. At any rate, the other point (the one about using a compiler that's better suited for a platform, to tell you more about that platform's capabilities) still stands.
The compiler used to compile the benchmarks makes a huge difference. I'm very disappointed that information about the compilers wasn't published in this "review". This makes me suspect that GCC was used. Performance of GCC-compiled code varies widely across platforms.
Wouldn't it have been better to use compilers that are tuned for each platform? Say, Intel's compilers for the x86 systems, and IBM's compilers for the PPC systems.
These compilers could perform better prefetching, for example, and you might get a more accurate idea of what the systems could do with binaries that are tuned for that system.
I never cared about an FM tuner on a portable music player until that huge blackout that took out huge parts of Ontario, Ohio, etc. I was very happy at that point that I had a radio in my portable CD player, since that was the only way I could find out what was going on.
So, I absolutely consider the addition of an FM tuner to be a very big deal.
Maybe it can't crash the system, but sometimes the system can be rendered almost entirely useless. Yesterday, one user app crashed on me, and I couldn't start any new app. I tried everything, but even task manager wouldn't come up. Had to cut power to the system. It was fine with a reboot, but that doesn't seem much better than an outright system crash to me.
Bah! Who needs seeing-eye dogs, anyway? Another thing to put on the obsolete list. Living creatures are way overrated. I prefer the cold sterility of machinery, myself.
I had no idea anything like this was patentable. But, since things like this apparently are, I have a method of locomotion that involves the placement of feet in front of...damn, I should really keep this to myself or someone else is going to apply first.
To quote Chef from South Park: "Everybody in the pool!"
Note that the FCC is removing any requirement for the Bells to share their fiber, so if Verizon runs fiber to your house, you'll be able to get Verizon service or none at all.
And this is better than a public, government-run-and-regulated monopoly how exactly?
What compiler doesn't matter. I think what the poster is getting at is that his own bugs take a certain amount of time, but compiler bugs are much nastier. It's not like you can rule out your own code from being at fault, at least not without going through a lot of debugging (and poring over standards documents to make sure you haven't violated some obscure rule, for that matter).
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While picking up my computer so I could more easily pop a new hard drive inside, I managed to drop it on my thigh. Yes, I can definitely confirm quad damage. (groan, boo, hiss, I know...sorry)
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they have either a Cockney or Australian accent.
And it doesn't matter which - most of you bally colonials can't tell the bloomin' difference.
Oh, we can usually tell that there's a difference. It's just that we always mistake one or the other for South African.
Am I the only one who saw the headline and thought "A Microsoft Project arcade game would SUCK"? Probably. Time to get the corporate hand out from up in there...
When in doubt, blame Slashdot. It's fun for the whole family.
Don't accidentally swallow these things. Too many, and you might end up with the Library of Alexandiarrhea.
Well, you can, but I wouldn't want to clean the ports or fan grill afterwards.
I know what you mean. As a programmer, I loves me my PPC970 (I have an affinity for big-endian machines, especially the PPC architecture -- them chips is purty), but the thing is so damn hot and power-hungry. Can't imagine what a dual-CPU system would do to my electric bill.
I must say, quite off-topicly (that's a word now, because I said so), that I visited an FCC office the other day, and the navels do look very nice. Well-kept. Not a piece of lint in the building. It's really no wonder that they do so much navel gazing. If I had one like theirs, I'd have a hard time taking my eyes off it.
And if they had used the IBM compilers on PPC, then they would have also gotten a huge increase there as well. I think it would have been better to use the Intel compiler on x86, and the IBM compiler on PPC, and then compare those results. If you're looking to see what the platforms can do, you might as well use the best compilers for those platforms. Seems to me you might get a more meaningful comparison. But, like you said, I might just be wrong again.
I did RTFA, and honestly, I don't know how I missed that. But, the other point still stands. It would have been better to use compilers better suited for each platform. Using GCC doesn't make it a level playing field. So much more work over the years has gone into tuning it for x86 than into tuning it for PPC. Stands to reason that maybe that would give the x86 an edge.
My mistake. I did RTFA, but I somehow missed that. At any rate, the other point (the one about using a compiler that's better suited for a platform, to tell you more about that platform's capabilities) still stands.
Wouldn't it have been better to use compilers that are tuned for each platform? Say, Intel's compilers for the x86 systems, and IBM's compilers for the PPC systems. These compilers could perform better prefetching, for example, and you might get a more accurate idea of what the systems could do with binaries that are tuned for that system.
So, I absolutely consider the addition of an FM tuner to be a very big deal.
"She turned me into a newt...I got better."
Don't worry, Bender. There's no such thing as 2.
Yet another reason girlfriends are better. Wait, who said that? *looks around accusingly*
Maybe it can't crash the system, but sometimes the system can be rendered almost entirely useless. Yesterday, one user app crashed on me, and I couldn't start any new app. I tried everything, but even task manager wouldn't come up. Had to cut power to the system. It was fine with a reboot, but that doesn't seem much better than an outright system crash to me.
47. That's right, 47 very slow Pentium 4s.
Last week I was sure I saw U.S. President Bush war mongering...
Groan, boo, hiss, I know.
Bah! Who needs seeing-eye dogs, anyway? Another thing to put on the obsolete list. Living creatures are way overrated. I prefer the cold sterility of machinery, myself.
How much of those 60 pages do you suppose look like this:
i++;
To quote Chef from South Park: "Everybody in the pool!"
And this is better than a public, government-run-and-regulated monopoly how exactly?
What compiler doesn't matter. I think what the poster is getting at is that his own bugs take a certain amount of time, but compiler bugs are much nastier. It's not like you can rule out your own code from being at fault, at least not without going through a lot of debugging (and poring over standards documents to make sure you haven't violated some obscure rule, for that matter).