Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Ambrose
I heard of that news, but I didn't realize that web site was managed by John Birrell. Now, DTrace is not feature-complete and stable, I don't think it is suitable to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/dtrace.html, but to http://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace, and people can easily update it 2011/8/31 C

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
30.08.2011 12:23, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: [Taking random email.] I think we could merge the $subj web page with this one (which is more actual, as of 7.0): http://www.freebsd.org/features.html The pages serve different purposes. There's no point in elaborating about feature X if feature X su

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Ambrose
I can help, I just changed my job and get more spare time. Currently I can help write doc and test. There is much documentation about DTrace ( thanks Sun), but none of these describes the technical details of FreeBSD DTrace implementation, so I think we can start with this. 1 write doc about what

question for GPGPU users (was: PHORONIX: OpenCL, ...)

2011-08-30 Thread Dieter BSD
Question for GPGPU users: How important are denormalized floats to GPGPU? (when the number is so small that it can't be normalized with the smallest possible exponent) The graphics people don't care, just round it.  Do the GPGPU people care? (This is for the Open Graphics Project, which is design

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Dieter BSD
> I would be happy if such a page would see an update in shorter terms > like 11 years ... Fixing some ancient PRs would be nice also. (fixed, not just closed) ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

2011-08-30 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/30/11 22:14, K. Macy wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: FWIW; Christopher Bergström and Pathscale delivered the EKOPath Compiler Suite, but no one followed up: (From the WantedPorts Wiki) https://github.com/pathscale/path64-suite There has been very low int

Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

2011-08-30 Thread K. Macy
> But the lack of response and non-shown interests shows a undeobtly signal > that freeBSD seems to be > dead for the HPC community and this could be also an indication for the lack > of CUDA support > by nVidia, Why performing efforts if no one cares? A great chance seems to > have passed by ...

Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

2011-08-30 Thread Steve Kargl
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 08/30/11 21:47, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > >Christopher Bergstr?m and Pathscale delivered the EKOPath > >Compiler Suite, but no one followed up: > > > >(From the WantedPorts Wiki) > >https://github.com/pathscale/path64-suite > >

Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

2011-08-30 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/30/11 21:47, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: FWIW; Christopher Bergström and Pathscale delivered the EKOPath Compiler Suite, but no one followed up: (From the WantedPorts Wiki) https://github.com/pathscale/path64-suite There has been very low interest in the FreeBSD port, and unfortunately this

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/08/2011 18:39 Andriy Gapon said the following: > 4. There is a missing developer/maintainer for DTrace on FreeBSD. I probably should clarify this point: it doesn't have to be *the* maintainer, a collective maintainer is also perfect. Thus, contributions are very welcome. > Nevertheless the

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:45:09PM +0800, Paul Ambrose wrote: > 3 There is a missing feature list about DTrace, but no schedule list about > when to fix it. We just need someone who wants to spend a lot of time working on it. Without that, there is no point in putting up a schedule. mcl

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/08/2011 16:45 Paul Ambrose said the following: > I do not believe the current status of DTrace is appropriate for promoting > > 1. DTrace is an experimental function or Semi-finished products. The kernel > dtrace support is ok, but the userland support is far from completion(at > least the

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Hartmann, O.
Sorry, my fault, my stupid. One bonus less on FreeBSD :-( On 08/30/11 15:45, Paul Ambrose wrote: I do not believe the current status of DTrace is appropriate for promoting 1. DTrace is an experimental function or Semi-finished products. The kernel dtrace support is ok, but the userland support

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Ambrose
I do not believe the current status of DTrace is appropriate for promoting 1. DTrace is an experimental function or Semi-finished products. The kernel dtrace support is ok, but the userland support is far from completion(at least the pid provider has many bugs) 2 the FreeBSD implementation is

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Monday 29 August 2011 21:58:29 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 27.08.2011 22:13, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > This website should be brushed up or taken offline! > > It seems full of vintage stuff from glory days. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html > > I think this one would be

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/30/11 11:30, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 08/29/2011 10:58 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: If that page would be updated at least monthly giving fair comparison with other os'es it could serve a big pros list for preferring FreeBSD over other systems. I dont think a monthly update i

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 30 August 2011 13:13, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 08/30/11 09:29, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> >> On Monday 29 August 2011 21:58:29 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >>> >>> 27.08.2011 22:13, Hartmann, O. wrote: This website should be brushed up or taken offline! It seems full of vintage s

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 08/30/11 09:29, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Monday 29 August 2011 21:58:29 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 27.08.2011 22:13, Hartmann, O. wrote: This website should be brushed up or taken offline! It seems full of vintage stuff from glory days. http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.htm

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-08-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On 29/08/2011 20:58, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: = SMP = * (?something about comparing other shedulers with SCHED_ULE), (?some rt stuff), (?some comparison with other interesting shedulers, like DragonflyBSD and QNX). From a recent post to -questions: "Alas, during a recent kernel build, I us