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[Marc Driftmeyer]

This tells me they know Apple is ready to leave them.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

That's not dying, it's providing a streamlined bridge to make V/OCL work as efficiently as possible....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Nice but useless to me until it works in Debian.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Shouldn't they just merge this into Clang/LLVM eventually? Along with SPIR and everything else?

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Stuff like this is massive for DTP and content creation in general. I am looking forward to leveraging it.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Sure seems to have some bugs in the repo script.

Correction: Saving the repo from the link doesn't corrupt the script. Now it works.
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[Marc Driftmeyer]

Meanwhile, Debian has its head up its rear about a stable release and Sid is stuck on 3.22.3, yet somehow 3.25 metacity and 3.25 software for gnome are...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

So sometime in 2018 for OpenCL to work correctly in FOSS? Sorry, but it better be OpenCL 2.1 or it's pathetic. 1.2 was announced nearly 5 years ago.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

With the next revision of macOS and the new filesystem we'll see just what Steam does. I agree with the 32 bit libs. Neither on my Macbook Pro nor Linux...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

And that's the reason I don't touch it. My RX-480 8GB will just wait until they go 64 bit. I have no desire to pollute my Debian Sid with a bunch of 32bit...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

No idea why you have WebKit 2 with Epiphany and yet incorporate the Javascript Engine from Mozilla instead of the one directly from WebKit.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

You folks crack me up. I make a 5 minute 1500 frame render of a basic scene in Blender for particles after baking their physics and I'm eating 160GB of...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Seriously? Some games can install hundreds upon hundreds of gigabytes of crap on the drive and you're complaining about 5%?...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Wake me when you benchmark Blender 2.79 OpenCL Mesa vs. AMD GPUPro. I look forward to that making an appearance.