Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures

2024-01-12 Thread Alan Corey
Are you forgetting that 64 bit is slower? In the arm world where it's easily switchable 64 bit is pokey when you don't need it. On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 12:54 PM wrote: > > > Sent from my mobile device. > > -- > *From:* YunQiang Su > *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2024

Re: broadcast error messages, unofficial Debian 12

2023-12-13 Thread Alan Corey
r > query appears to be user support, which takes place on debian-user. > I've set Reply-To: debian-user. > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 02:52:11PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > > I can have 2 or more Zutty terminal windows running to work on a > > program. When I get a compil

broadcast error messages, unofficial Debian 12

2023-12-13 Thread Alan Corey
This is in an unofficial debian release at https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/, the one for 8 GB Pis. I've never seen anything like it. I can have 2 or more Zutty terminal windows running to work on a program. When I get a compiling error in one terminal it gets broadcast to both windows.

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-14 Thread Alan Corey
What if we define an epoch to be 50 years and the epoch number becomes part of how the computer keeps track of the date. Something similar is done in astronomy I think, star charts always have an epoch. So epoch 0 was 1970, epoch 1 is 2000, epoch 2 is 2050. Then we can keep a time_t at 32

Re: Bug#881333: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Corey
Why couldn't you choose QT for Desktop or QT for ES OpenGL when you compile your program? Supply both libraries? ES gives an enormous performance boost to little machines that need it, desktop OpenGL is more pretty pictures. On 11/26/18, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El lunes,

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Corey
Try glxgears and es2gears on few different platforms. On a Pi 3b glxgears runs at about 45 FPS, es2gears slightly lower. On my Rock64 it's in the hundreds of FPS but that's Mali. Look at omxplayer, full screen HD video while the CPU idles (on a Pi). The GPU is more capable than the CPU. You