Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, September 09, 2015 9:52:55 PM james wrote: > Jeremi Piotrowski gmail.com> writes: > > > No, and yes. Compilation is not affected in any way and runtime > > performance can only be improved _if_ this stuff is explicitly used within > > the code. > > Yes this is all new and a work in

[gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread james
Jeremi Piotrowski gmail.com> writes: > > AFAI understand gcc-5 should compile faster? > > And generate faster code in some cases? > No, and yes. Compilation is not affected in any way and runtime > performance can only be improved _if_ this stuff is explicitly used within > the code. OpenAcc-2

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Mick wrote: > On the same hardware I noticed that a CMYK photograph converted to sRGB looked > mostly the same (indistinguishable) on Linux, but the sRGB colours were > brighter on MSWindows. > If everything is working correctly then the CMYK original and sRGB copy

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 09 September 2015 14:41:19 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 09 Sep 2015 09:28:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 September 2015 19:42:08 Mick wrote: > > > > --->8 > > > > > So, the Linux renedering seems to be misleading the user. Have you > > > noticed the same? > > > > > > BTW,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update to go-1.4.2

2015-09-09 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, September 09, 2015 7:04:11 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, September 09, 2015 3:37:36 PM Ajai Khattri wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > Post your emerge --info. > > > Why do you have i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a 64-bit machine? > > > > FY

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update to go-1.4.2

2015-09-09 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, September 09, 2015 3:37:36 PM Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > Post your emerge --info. > > Why do you have i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a 64-bit machine? > > FYI, this is 32bit Gentoo running on a 64bit virtual machine (so it has a > 64bit ker

Re: [gentoo-user] dec-terminal fonts

2015-09-09 Thread thelma
On 09/09/2015 03:04 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've got to liking this font: > -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 > > But, after checking with xlsfonts... I don't see it available > > Can anyone tell me which font package would have -dec-termainal [...] > fonts? check:

[gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread james
Jeremi Piotrowski gmail.com> writes: > No, and yes. Compilation is not affected in any way and runtime > performance can only be improved _if_ this stuff is explicitly used within > the code. Yes this is all new and a work in progress. I do not think it will be gcc-6 that makes the difference in

[gentoo-user] dec-terminal fonts

2015-09-09 Thread Harry Putnam
I've got to liking this font: -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 But, after checking with xlsfonts... I don't see it available Can anyone tell me which font package would have -dec-termainal [...] fonts?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 09.09.2015 21:35, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > tldr: don't buy a dedicated gpu just because you read something on a > mailing list ;) yep :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update to go-1.4.2

2015-09-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/09/2015 21:37, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >> Post your emerge --info. >> Why do you have i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a 64-bit machine? > > FYI, this is 32bit Gentoo running on a 64bit virtual machine (so it has > a 64bit kernel) because awhile ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update to go-1.4.2

2015-09-09 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: Post your emerge --info. Why do you have i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a 64-bit machine? FYI, this is 32bit Gentoo running on a 64bit virtual machine (so it has a 64bit kernel) because awhile ago I upgraded from a 32bit setup. Was hoping I wouldn't h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/09/2015 20:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2015-09-09 um 04:20 schrieb James: > >> I have posted several links on the subject previously [1]; here's one >> [2]. > > [..] > >> If you can afford it, get a mobo that supports DDR-4. >> Right now the AMD-HBM Fury-X is the video card with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 09.09.2015 20:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Digging up that thread now somewhere ... > > Ah, I even participated then ;-) > > AFAI understand gcc-5 should compile faster? > And generate faster code in some cases? No, and yes. Compilation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 09 Sep 2015 19:01:24 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2015-09-09 um 04:20 schrieb James: > > I have posted several links on the subject previously [1]; here's one > > [2]. > > [..] > > > If you can afford it, get a mobo that supports DDR-4. > > Right now the AMD-HBM Fury-X is the vid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 09.09.2015 20:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Digging up that thread now somewhere ... Ah, I even participated then ;-) AFAI understand gcc-5 should compile faster? And generate faster code in some cases? looking at genlop -t I can't really spot speedups in the last months. With gcc-5.2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2015-09-09 um 04:20 schrieb James: I have posted several links on the subject previously [1]; here's one [2]. [..] If you can afford it, get a mobo that supports DDR-4. Right now the AMD-HBM Fury-X is the video card with the highest bandwidth for a memory buss on a video card, if you can

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-09 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 09 Sep 2015 09:28:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2015 19:42:08 Mick wrote: > > --->8 > > > So, the Linux renedering seems to be misleading the user. Have you > > noticed the same? > > > > BTW, both Linux machines that I tried this on are running radeon drivers >

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 September 2015 19:42:08 Mick wrote: --->8 > So, the Linux renedering seems to be misleading the user. Have you noticed > the same? > > BTW, both Linux machines that I tried this on are running radeon drivers - > are these to blame? The AppleMac is running Intel graphics with its