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[smitty3268]

PulseVideo sounds vaguely pornographic....

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Yeah, the thing you have to remember is that with OSS volunteer development, you're not paying them for a product. You have no power to make them focus...

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Nope, their driver is going to be separate from Mesa even after it's open sourced. No doubt so they can keep their current code and share it with Windows...

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That happened a while back. They called it Wayland....

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Huh? The 4770k doesn't have an Iris GPU, it's just the standard HD 4600 gpu which is GT2 tier (not even the high end non-Iris part)....

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19 months and still no open source vulkan driver....

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The wayland protocol is only *described* by xml, it doesn't use it. Anything passed over a connection would be binary, and also not directly part of wayland...

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If X was easy to replace, it would have been done 20 years ago because that's how long it's sucked. Just because something is bad doesn't mean it's easy...

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If Wayland is 10 years old, then I think Windows 7 is about 25 years old....

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The real "performance" improvements were about reducing power usage, allowing for zero-copy video, less tearing, etc. Anyone who thought their...

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And? Isn't that exactly the breakdown between which gpus use which of the two drivers?...

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Thank you for the correction. I was indeed mixing up FMA with AVX2 in general....

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Setting some random environment variable is not part of GL 4.6. That's still just some random implementation detail of the radeonsi driver.
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Well, they haven't submitted it for review yet so I'd say the implication is that they don't think it's ready....

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That's all I'm saying. If you convert AVX code to AVX2 it will run twice as fast on Intel, but the same speed on Ryzen because you have half the ALUs....

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Most of it is from the hardware vendors (mostly Intel and AMD), consulting firms that I think are mainly paid by the hardware vendors and Valve, distros...

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Just a quick note. While javascript is pretty inherently single-threaded, Firefox is trying to parallelize quite a bit of the work each tab is doing as...

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Yes, but the AVX2 support is only at half speed (aka the same as full rate but half data-width size AVX)...

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Yeah, I think it's the cache architecture which causes slower memory latency timings that hurts AMD in gaming tests. I feel like that was an intentional...

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What kind of cpu usage were you seeing? Did it use any more than 8 cpu cores, for example?