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[Xelix]

I think it's a sensible decision: Clang is trying to ensure that code written against gcc works fine with as little modification as possible on Clang....

[Xelix]

Probably because it's the default on the distribution he used for the tests. Default settings do matter, since it's what most people will use....

[Xelix]

What you say is (mostly) true for most end-users, who typically use packages from their distribution, which are compiled for a common denominator so that...

[Xelix]

The DX12 backend predates Vulkan itself, as others have mentioned.

You're very deluded if you think you have anything to teach to the Dolphin...

[Xelix]

I am not a game developer so I cannot make an informed comment on the first part of your statement. I am however a software developer who develops on...

[Xelix]

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/s...ming-languages
http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
http://blog.codeeval.com/codeevalblo...guages-of-...

[Xelix]

Why not? One could want a recent kernel to get recent features/support for recent hardware but also keep a conservative userland. In this case, running...

[Xelix]

You are forgetting about people who want to run a more recent kernel on RH6/7. This sounds like a rather common use case to me....

[Xelix]

Here is a feature-complete implementation of std::make_unique in C++11: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17902439...

[Xelix]

I think the main thing one cay say for sure is that OpenCL is pretty much a second-class citizen for Nvidia, they prioritize CUDA much more (in terms...

[Xelix]

Ok, maybe Michael could edit the article to mention this? Along with the number of threads used....

[Xelix]

@Michael: Are the CPU tests single-threaded? I couldn't find this information in the article (or maybe I just missed it)

[Xelix]

FP16 seems to be the road that Apple is taking within its own GPUs. See http://www.realworldtech.com/apple-custom-gpu/ for more details.

[Xelix]

This is something that has been lacking for a while. Even if it is just an alias to -O1 for now, thanks to this at least we don't need anymore to use...

[Xelix]

Do you have anything backing this up? Or is it just really your two cents?

C++ gives you a lot of control over the layout of your objects...