On The Heels Of An Impressive Launch

[mo0n_sniper]

Hope distributions will provide kernels compiled with it, maybe different kernels for specific processors (Phenom, Turion, i7 etc.). Or maybe the full distribution compiled with performance optimisations.

[Guido]

I suppose that it has something to do with PathScale's 'CUDA-killer'?

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/20...-cuda-killer/1

[AnonymousCoward]

Pity Michael had to steel their thunder but I am looking forward to rebuilding my Gentoo system with this

Yeah, I'll probably do that as well at some point I hope it can compile wine. Anything but the most basic of optimisation with gcc causes crashes with wine at the moment. Would love to squeeze a few more FPS out of it

[FireBurn]

Pity Michael had to steel their thunder but I am looking forward to rebuilding my Gentoo system with this

[V!NCENT]

what does this mean for the end user??

i mean will you be able to compile a kernel with it and have the whole linux stack built with it???

and what about all the other gcc competing compilers (llvm)

It's fully GNU C compatible, so you'll simply replace GCC with this, compile everything and everything.

Is this MIT licensed? I thought somneone mentioned it? Then this will replace all open source compilers. Even on the Mac.

[89c51]

what does this mean for the end user??

i mean will you be able to compile a kernel with it and have the whole linux stack built with it???

and what about all the other gcc competing compilers (llvm)

[V!NCENT]

Damn! Now the is downright impressive!

[Drago]

Micheal you revealed it,...$1795 )
http://www.pathscale.com/ekopath-compiler-suite

[bbordwell]

and i think its a opensource galium3D openCL implementation from redhat or google

The Himeno benchmark is single threaded so there is no way openCL is causing this performance bump.

[gbeauche]

given the clues on twitter, maybe something to do with pathscale ekopath

Yes, EKOPath4 was 1795 USD and there is no trace of ordering information on their website, only a link to a "trial", i.e. no link to "purchase". Considering *BSD people already bought and open sourced their C++ runtime, that won't be surprising to get the compiler as the next step. I wish this was ENZO though. On the other hand, ENZO has no price tag and this could be the link to the "OpenSolaris" community Michael mentioned...