Remember that we're talking about context switch overhead, not function call overhead. It doesn't matter if you use three or thirty vector registers, the kernel still has to take the performance hit to figure out which registers are in use. The compiler will generate instructions to set the appropriate bits in the VRSAVE register, but the OS still needs to compare each bit in VRSAVE so that it knows which registers to save/restore.
I have a great deal of respect for Sean Parent; he's contributed good things to projects I've worked on in the past. However --
I can't believe these guys are spending all that effort to, in the end, not come up with something better than Mac OS X's AppKit framework (the UI portion of Cocoa).
They're stuck in a static-language, C++ mindset, and so they're designing this huge bloated 'organic' monstrosity of a UI engine, all to avoid the 'inefficiency' of a dynamic language like Objective-C (or Ruby, or Python, for chrissake).
If this is the best they can do, Adobe is dead if only some well-funded competitor wants to come along and stick the fork in.
But then, I think the Boost folks are similarly misguided. Everything they do would be unnecessary in Objective-C, Ruby, or Python, or, if they really want to continue to write in an inscrutable language, just use some obscure Lisp dialect. Boost would then be unnecessary.
Yes. I'm glad to see Bush's recent directives to NASA to focus some more riveting projects. Can't wait for more of the same.
Can't wait for what, more senseless political grandstanding (let's go to Mars and make Shrub look like a visionary! like anybody cares about Mars! "what is that, a planet or something?"), or more underfunded and useless "science" initiatives? Hey, maybe we can search for images of Jesus in space -- or figure out how to flatten the Earth and fill the universe with toxic waste so that it matches the one-planet conception of the universe that you have if you take the Bible literally -- that'd make the fundies who vote for Bush happy.
Bush doesn't care about space any more than he cares about human life.
Go ahead and troll-rate me, mods -- I've got Karma, and you know it's true. Whoo-hoo!
... I stand by our proud tradition of thumbing our noses at our government, poking fun at our ratlike leaders and ignoring laws and any other rules that I don't agree with. This is what makes me an American.
Gosh, I thought that's what made you a prison-rape victim.
Or President.
Maybe, maybe not. One thing it definitely does is splinter the GNOME developer community. There are cases where sometimes "because it is there" is not a good enough motivation for doing things, because of the fallout those things generate.
There are very talented people working on Mono, at least a few of whom would otherwise be dedicated to improving the GNOME platform. It's possible that Mono could be considered an improvement to the GNOME platform...
Something else I'm curious about: if Miguel finds some new technical cause to champion, does Mono drop on the floor like Bonobo did? (Genuinely curious here; I know little about the reasons Bonobo left the building.)
The problem with genetically-engineered cats is that we have so many friggin' feral cats in the world. It's an epidemic, it's a drain on your tax dollars -- follow that link if you don't believe me. The world would be a better and cheaper place if every cat owner adopted a feral cat instead of a custom-engineered or purebred one.
Yes, this probably means extremely allergic people shouldn't have cats. It also means people who are afraid of cats that don't give off light shouldn't have glow-in-the-dark cats.
You, sir, are quoting out of context. The full paragraph is this:
Does anyone out there love MSN? I doubt it; it seems to share AOL's fate of being disliked but not hated enough to change your e-mail account. And do college kids still dream of going to work at MS? Five years ago it was a source of pride to go to work for the Evil Empire -- now, who cares? It's just Motorola with wetter winters.
In other words, he's talking about how college kids perceive Microsoft, not about the current reality of working there or about contrasting it with Motorola.
Your experience seems to be abnormal. I'm another satisified Speakeasy customer, and yes, I have used their support lines (friendly humans! knowledgeable ones!).
Also, I've gotta say have never had a smoother high-speed internet install, even though it involved a strange menage trois between Speakeasy, Covad and SBC. Speakeasy managed the whole thing and kept me updated every day on the progress.
You of faith will stop getting bashed if you stop bashing the rest of us for simply trying to live our lives in the present.
Why do so many Christians feel persecuted? I don't understand it. One execution, two thousand years ago, and everyone who is not a Christian is suddenly a persecutor. Yeah, I know this is offtopic, thanks mods.
That's hardly sarcasm. If Congress actually bothered to have real debates instead of rubber-stamping Bush's fundamentalist follies, don't you think the country would be less beholden to China right now?
And no, the Democrats aren't any better. They're still fucking afraid to grow a pair and actually stand up for what's right.
Troll rate me, my bitches, see if I care! I use a Mac, too, so you can rate me for that also!
autoconf sucks ass, but it actually works on most platforms without requiring any dependencies except a basic Bourne shell and m4. The available alternatives (imake, anyone?) are either much worse or add major dependencies (Python, for example) which invalidate them for a lot of projects.
CBS news isn't alone or even fucking the worst offender -- Fox News and the New York Times have done far worse, for far longer. It's ridiculous to single out CBS News for one bad story.
Sieg heil, GOP!
Unix Man Pages that contain all there is to know about a certain app in a not quite end user refined form
That's rich. Do you use some form of Unix? For every man page with 'all there is to know,' there's an equal and opposite man page with 'not much at the time it was written in 1988, and never kept up to date'.
No, it doesn't. The installer framework does record the installed files in package 'receipt' files, but there's no standard way to uninstall a package.
"People don't hire you because of the things that you learned in school. Having a (diploma/degree/insert cert here) simply shows that you are capable of learning and have the determination to finish a difficult task"
Where did you get that idea? A degree shows nothing. Even Dubya has a degree (from Yale, no less!). Means nothing.
(1) They want to control the file format. Not-invented-here syndrome. Like Adobe, they're very technologically arrogant. At one time, this was a motivational tool for Sony managers to use with their engineers; now, it's outmoded B.S outside of the PlayStation and televisions.
(2) They own a large amount of content (Sony Records/Sony Pictures), so they want to institute DRM -- remember that Sony was originally a champion of fair use with the Betamax, successfully going to the Supreme Court to get VCR's declared legal.
They bought Columbia Pictures because they wanted to have control over both of these facets, and now these facets are both controlling Sony. Terribly ironic.
My pop has one of these. If you have family members who are not technologically sophisticated, forget about it. I'm gonna get them a Logitech Harmony for Christmas.
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What's your source? I don't recall reading that in any of Heinlein's books, or anywhere else. Not doubting you, just wanna know.
Remember that we're talking about context switch overhead, not function call overhead. It doesn't matter if you use three or thirty vector registers, the kernel still has to take the performance hit to figure out which registers are in use. The compiler will generate instructions to set the appropriate bits in the VRSAVE register, but the OS still needs to compare each bit in VRSAVE so that it knows which registers to save/restore.
I can't believe these guys are spending all that effort to, in the end, not come up with something better than Mac OS X's AppKit framework (the UI portion of Cocoa).
They're stuck in a static-language, C++ mindset, and so they're designing this huge bloated 'organic' monstrosity of a UI engine, all to avoid the 'inefficiency' of a dynamic language like Objective-C (or Ruby, or Python, for chrissake).
If this is the best they can do, Adobe is dead if only some well-funded competitor wants to come along and stick the fork in.
But then, I think the Boost folks are similarly misguided. Everything they do would be unnecessary in Objective-C, Ruby, or Python, or, if they really want to continue to write in an inscrutable language, just use some obscure Lisp dialect. Boost would then be unnecessary.
Can't wait for what, more senseless political grandstanding (let's go to Mars and make Shrub look like a visionary! like anybody cares about Mars! "what is that, a planet or something?"), or more underfunded and useless "science" initiatives? Hey, maybe we can search for images of Jesus in space -- or figure out how to flatten the Earth and fill the universe with toxic waste so that it matches the one-planet conception of the universe that you have if you take the Bible literally -- that'd make the fundies who vote for Bush happy.
Bush doesn't care about space any more than he cares about human life.
Go ahead and troll-rate me, mods -- I've got Karma, and you know it's true. Whoo-hoo!
Huh? If OS X doesn't do it for you, and your main beef with Windows is aesthetic, you're not gonna be happy with GNOME...
Gosh, I thought that's what made you a prison-rape victim. Or President.
My ass. Ever used Windows? Let's not bend over backwards to be nice to someone who isn't nice to us.
Maybe, maybe not. One thing it definitely does is splinter the GNOME developer community. There are cases where sometimes "because it is there" is not a good enough motivation for doing things, because of the fallout those things generate.
There are very talented people working on Mono, at least a few of whom would otherwise be dedicated to improving the GNOME platform. It's possible that Mono could be considered an improvement to the GNOME platform...
Something else I'm curious about: if Miguel finds some new technical cause to champion, does Mono drop on the floor like Bonobo did? (Genuinely curious here; I know little about the reasons Bonobo left the building.)
The problem with genetically-engineered cats is that we have so many friggin' feral cats in the world. It's an epidemic, it's a drain on your tax dollars -- follow that link if you don't believe me. The world would be a better and cheaper place if every cat owner adopted a feral cat instead of a custom-engineered or purebred one.
Yes, this probably means extremely allergic people shouldn't have cats. It also means people who are afraid of cats that don't give off light shouldn't have glow-in-the-dark cats.
Does anyone out there love MSN? I doubt it; it seems to share AOL's fate of being disliked but not hated enough to change your e-mail account. And do college kids still dream of going to work at MS? Five years ago it was a source of pride to go to work for the Evil Empire -- now, who cares? It's just Motorola with wetter winters.
In other words, he's talking about how college kids perceive Microsoft, not about the current reality of working there or about contrasting it with Motorola.
Also, I've gotta say have never had a smoother high-speed internet install, even though it involved a strange menage trois between Speakeasy, Covad and SBC. Speakeasy managed the whole thing and kept me updated every day on the progress.
Why do so many Christians feel persecuted? I don't understand it. One execution, two thousand years ago, and everyone who is not a Christian is suddenly a persecutor. Yeah, I know this is offtopic, thanks mods.
And no, the Democrats aren't any better. They're still fucking afraid to grow a pair and actually stand up for what's right.
Troll rate me, my bitches, see if I care! I use a Mac, too, so you can rate me for that also!
autoconf sucks ass, but it actually works on most platforms without requiring any dependencies except a basic Bourne shell and m4. The available alternatives (imake, anyone?) are either much worse or add major dependencies (Python, for example) which invalidate them for a lot of projects.
No, X11 does not count. Neither does NeoOffice in it's current state.
Go ahead, troll rate me, redneck Slashdot moderator! Up against the wall.
CBS news isn't alone or even fucking the worst offender -- Fox News and the New York Times have done far worse, for far longer. It's ridiculous to single out CBS News for one bad story. Sieg heil, GOP!
It's better than that, The Sun is owned by Rupert Murdoch. You know, the guy who owns Fox? Fox News? Why this surprises anyone is beyond me...
That's rich. Do you use some form of Unix? For every man page with 'all there is to know,' there's an equal and opposite man page with 'not much at the time it was written in 1988, and never kept up to date'.
No, it doesn't. The installer framework does record the installed files in package 'receipt' files, but there's no standard way to uninstall a package.
I don't care if you go to college or not, but you absolutely need to go to an English class.
Where did you get that idea? A degree shows nothing. Even Dubya has a degree (from Yale, no less!). Means nothing.
You obviously didn't hear the Bush administration's recent report that high school students are uninterested in sex.
Sony's problem is twofold:
(1) They want to control the file format. Not-invented-here syndrome. Like Adobe, they're very technologically arrogant. At one time, this was a motivational tool for Sony managers to use with their engineers; now, it's outmoded B.S outside of the PlayStation and televisions.
(2) They own a large amount of content (Sony Records/Sony Pictures), so they want to institute DRM -- remember that Sony was originally a champion of fair use with the Betamax, successfully going to the Supreme Court to get VCR's declared legal.
They bought Columbia Pictures because they wanted to have control over both of these facets, and now these facets are both controlling Sony. Terribly ironic.
My pop has one of these. If you have family members who are not technologically sophisticated, forget about it. I'm gonna get them a Logitech Harmony for Christmas.