My first impression was also that this was some cpu+gpu thing (opencl) but given the information people have offered on this thread it certainly seems to be ekopath. As a compiler nerd I'm excited! Also the himeno pressure test benchmark looked impressive but:
A) unless my memory fails me, the himeno pressure test has given the largest differences in earlier benchmarks, meaning that it's hardly representative of the general result you'll get when compiling with ekopath but rather a cherry-picked result.
B) 'GCC compatible' doesn't necessarily mean that it can compile everything which can be compiled with GCC, just look at ICC and even DragonEgg which uses the GCC frontend and yet fails to compile a ton of stuff, not to mention Clang etc. The kernel in particular depends greatly on GCC compiler extensions (not surprisingly since the kernel devs themselves requested most of those compiler extensions).
Still, another open source compiler suite is GREAT, currently we have GCC, Clang/LLVM, Open64 etc, and now hopefully we can add another strong compiler suite to that list, looking forward to future benchmarking.
So, if this is indeed true, thanks PathScale!
On another note, I wonder what licence it will land under. I assume that there will still be a commercial version available?
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At least this time it's software that's already compatible with Linux, unlike the Lightworks video editor, which we probably won't see natively supported on linux for another 5-10 years.
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Originally posted by bwat47 View PostThis article is one of the worst I have EVER read... What the hell is this article EVEN TALKING ABOUT!? What is Dirndl?
Originally posted by Article"Dirndl" is the codename for this new project that we shall use until the official announcement is made.
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Originally posted by bwat47 View PostThis article is one of the worst I have EVER read... What the hell is this article EVEN TALKING ABOUT!? What is Dirndl?
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This article is one of the worst I have EVER read... What the hell is this article EVEN TALKING ABOUT!? What is Dirndl?
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Originally posted by Qaridariumhey yes nice :-) but after this we still need openCL ...
OpenCL kernels running on the GPU should not be impacted by driver optimization while they are running on the GPU, right?
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I think that the idea of simply recompiling the whole Gentoo system with this is extremely optimistic.
Although this is unlikely to ever replace GCC (same with CLang), it's always great to have more open source compilers out there.
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Wasn't pathscale already involved in Open64, and path64?
Either way, I have my doubts about anything truly far-reaching being announced, but if it's something nice and compiler related, then any article is going to have to be pretty well thought out (including which benchmarks are run, and what they're compared to), or else everybody is likely to rip it to shreds.
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