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[duby229]

Yup, exactly what my last post was trying to imply....

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It'll probably be something like what fglrx was, with the exception that some of the code will be available. It'll be a disaster....

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Well, at minimum we need to agree that process management should never be done in userspace on linux. On windows you -have- to, but on linux definitely...

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Pretty difficult actually, the patches you can see in their pkg repo is only a very tiny percentage of the modifications they make. Most of their optimizations...

[duby229]

Yes, it certainly is, Windows is a true microkernel. Basically everything is userspace....

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But that's not how Windows works. Which is why I mentioned game ports and is exactly the problem these futex modifications in kernel will address. Windows...

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Because Intel doesn't release patches for most of their optimizations and many of them are even hardcoded. Almost all of them would have to be manually...

[duby229]

I just don't think blocking should be done in userspace, almost nobody is good at it. Process management and memory management exists in kernel for a...

[duby229]

The problem is that blocking is really hard to do and not just anybody should even try. Almost everyone that try's is going to screw their codes performance....

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Yes! Must get that futex work in! The problem is that most people don't do mutexes right, it's just waaay beyond the scope of what a game engine -should-...

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The thing with SMT4 is that ZEN only has 4 integer units per core... The implication being they would need to at least double the number of execution...

[duby229]

It probably won't work right if they don't actually test it on AMD hardware during development. Sorry. This whole wayland thing is looking like a dystopian...

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Wtf? It's been more than a decade already... Talk about too little too late.......

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This topic deserves so much more attention than I can give it right now. But I have to say that it's not usually a good idea to be an early adopter on...

[duby229]

The APU is kinda the whole point. I'm using a Vega 10 right now it annihilates everything discreet nVidia has on the low end. I don't have one, but even...

[duby229]

Ok, seems you do understand, my bad. But yeah, you're 100% right....

[duby229]

I don't think you have a single clue how many filesystems tools like scandisk and chkdsk have corrupted. I absolutely guarantee it's far more than they...

[duby229]

next MS develops an incompatible (backwards, but not forwards compatible) exfat filesystem, then they write partner agreements that require them to use...

[duby229]

probably nv means nonvolatile is my guess....

[duby229]

after accomplishing a hell of a lot of science. it was the first space station to prove that space stations could really be viable....