Re: [Mono-dev] Adding Powerpc64 port

2008-11-14 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > Hello, I have been asked to do a mono port for powerpc64. I am new to > mono and still learning my way around and so would appreciate any > pointers from experienced mono developers. One important issue to keep in mind is that if you want your code to be integrated into Mono's code base,

Re: [Mono-dev] Ideas for Mono on Windows

2008-11-14 Thread Miguel de Icaza
> As to not just be a complainer, I am offering some suggestions/ideas > and hoping for others to do the same (or at least critique mine ;-)). > Before I offer any suggestions, I think we need to balance between two > things. One is making life easy for the mono build/package team to > produce a W

Re: [Mono-dev] Ideas for Mono on Windows

2008-11-14 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > The upside of the mechanism I am using is that all of that would still > work the same, because I am still using the .sources files instead of > having a .csproj. The downside is we still wouldn't have .csproj's, so > it doesn't make working in VS any easier, it just makes it possible

Re: [Mono-dev] [PATCH] WindowsBase: System.ComponentModel

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Toshok
awesome - you have commit access? If so, go for it. Otherwise I can get this in tonight. chris On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Brian O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ah, I see what you mean now. Writing unit tests for code you can't see is > definitely a challenge. > > I added the check

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono 2.2 has been branched

2008-11-14 Thread James Hughes
Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > The branch is at branches/mono-2-2 in svn and we will be making a > preview build sometime this week. Please help us make this the best and > most stable release of Mono yet. > > Trunk revision at which we branched is 118441. > > Trying to build revision 118900 on Linu

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono 2.2 has been branched

2008-11-14 Thread James Hughes
James Hughes wrote: > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > >> The branch is at branches/mono-2-2 in svn and we will be making a >> preview build sometime this week. Please help us make this the best and >> most stable release of Mono yet. >> >> Trunk revision at which we branched is 118441. >> >> >>

[Mono-dev] Mono.Simd - slower than the normal implementation

2008-11-14 Thread Alan McGovern
I found a bit of code in the SHA1 implementation which i thought was ideal for SIMD optimisations. However, unless i resort to unsafe code, it's actually substantially slower! I've attached three implementations of the method here. The original, the safe SIMD and the unsafe SIMD. The runtimes are a

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono.Simd - slower than the normal implementation

2008-11-14 Thread Alan McGovern
I forgot to mention that I'm on a 1.86GHZ core2duo and i was running with --optimize=simd. Alan. On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Alan McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found a bit of code in the SHA1 implementation which i thought was > ideal for SIMD optimisations. However, unless i resor

Re: [Mono-dev] Ideas for Mono on Windows

2008-11-14 Thread Eugeny Grishul
There is no need for .dll.sources for (ms|x)build - use wildcards: gmcs is self-hosting compiler so there is no obstacles to have unified self-hosting build engine like xbuild for entire project. The only problem is developers that like spend time in command line insted of develop