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[jacob]

This is certainly useful but ultimately nit that important if the firmware is still opaque blobs. We need more machines like the Talos where you can actually...

[jacob]

This is the FSF, not GNU. GNU is a software project. The FSF has a very strong ideological standpoint because that's its whole purpose. It exists to promote...

[jacob]

This could be a factor, but it doesn't make the comparisons biased or invalid. A benchmark like this is useful for the end user if it answers the question...

[jacob]

That's not really true, there have been very visible improvements over the past 2 years or so. But there are many problems left, which is why it's good...

[jacob]

Presumably for Wine?
Or to facilitate porting Windows apps to Linux?...

[jacob]

Which parts specifically are broken?

Other than that systemd is not going to stop picking up new features. One of the project's goal statements...

[jacob]

Interesting. But if the website is highly outdated, that's not the sign of a well-ran project. My impression was that BcacheFS started with all the easy...

[jacob]

Btrfs without RAID5/6 is perfectly safe. But then, so should be ext4....

[jacob]

It can, with qemu. Jokes aside, I wouldn't be surprised if it was largely sufficient to run some of the classic point&click games you can get on steam...

[jacob]

I think, sir, that you are a troll....

[jacob]

Yes, I know this exists, but is it even in the mainline kernel?...

[jacob]

Well it's clearly a niche concept that most types of applications don't actually need. Even on Windows it's not used very often. And of course you can...

[jacob]

I think being able to encode a full-length, 1080-lines movie within 24h on ordinary hardware would be a huge progress. At the moment it would take considerably...

[jacob]

Quality is one thing, but the main issue that at the moment the libaom encoder is abysmally slow....

[jacob]

As far as watching YouTube goes, that's true. BTW you basically are getting it already. Chromium/Chrome already supports AV1, I think (not sure about...

[jacob]

Yeah well that's all great and everything, but I will start getting excited when there is an actually usable encoder.

[jacob]

Of course you can do that, but that just means rewriting what the glibc does, no more and no less. It's still a poor man's substitute for actual AIO ...

[jacob]

I should probably have made myself clearer. What I meant to say was that nonblock IO will not wait for more data, but when it returns, the data that are...

[jacob]

There is a difference, in the sense that any user thread handling IO involves memory, context switching, frequent syscalls (which are themselves expensive)...

[jacob]

No, there seems to be a common confusion between non-blocking IO and async IO. Non-blocking IO (whether on sockets or anything else) is *SYNCHRONOUS*....