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[Marc Driftmeyer]

Perhaps you'd like to see Pitivi and other non-linear editors bring your CPU to a crawl processing MJPEGs but I don't, hence it has many uses, including...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I'm really trying to figure out the intent behind this headline. After all, the work on the FOSS stack is by AMD. So are they just masturbating or beating...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I think you should reserve judgement until the architecture is incorporated into application space [games, and applied sciences], and also in crossfire...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Unless you are interested in FP16 packed bits and the intracies of the new architectures you won't fully grasp just how much Game engines and their game...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

It's a WIP....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

For those that want a more pleasing layout: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/171708/

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I'd be thrilled to use it, but I'm not trashing a Debian system which is my production system just to get a working OpenCL.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Let the person waste thousands more on Intel. I don't give a crap. I'm glad the problem is acknowledged and being handled in a professional manner. Furthermore,...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Do you believe the vast majority of Linux [or large number of users] actually use GCC? I've got it installed and don't touch it. It's there for other...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Who cares? They can't keep current in Sid, with GNOME Desktop or KDE. We'll be heading rapidly to GNOME 3.26 and Debian took months after 3.22 to get...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

OpenCL, ObjC, Swift, LLDB, LLD, etc....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

FWIW: Radeon Vega Pro Introduces A "AMD Secure Processor"

Should be: Radeon Vega Pro Introduces An "AMD Secure Processor&...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Unless you're talking about the specific amd sanctioned linux-kernel-4.11 uploaded to the AMD ROCm repository none of the OpenCL stack works outside of...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Where? AMD still shows 17.10 driver.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

And one day you'll probably get it, but this is far more appealing and functional to the vast majority of users....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Why wouldn't you use utf8 over ascii? Seriously....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

It's been accepted and committed into LLVM 5.0, by Craig Topper.

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm...20170717/47103...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I'm sorry, but I happen to be a grown man who doesn't play video games. Wake me when the OpenCL stack crap is finally 1.2 or newer and not requiring a...