On The Heels Of An Impressive Launch

[pingufunkybeat]

I think that the idea of simply recompiling the whole Gentoo system with this is extremely optimistic.

Although this is unlikely to ever replace GCC (same with CLang), it's always great to have more open source compilers out there.

[Qaridarium]

The Himeno benchmark is single threaded so there is no way openCL is causing this performance bump.

thats wrong you can calculate speculative on multiple cores

[Qaridarium]

Micheal you revealed it,...$1795 )
http://www.pathscale.com/ekopath-compiler-suite

hey yes nice :-) but after this we still need openCL ...

[V!NCENT]

hey yes nice :-) but after this we still need openCL ...

Would OpenCL run at the speed of the card or at the speed of the driver optimizations? (ignoring that it has to pass through some software layers to get to the card)

OpenCL kernels running on the GPU should not be impacted by driver optimization while they are running on the GPU, right?

[bwat47]

This article is one of the worst I have EVER read... What the hell is this article EVEN TALKING ABOUT!? What is Dirndl?

[M1kkko]

This article is one of the worst I have EVER read... What the hell is this article EVEN TALKING ABOUT!? What is Dirndl?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl

[Vegar]

This article is one of the worst I have EVER read... What the hell is this article EVEN TALKING ABOUT!? What is Dirndl?

Did you even read the article?

"Dirndl" is the codename for this new project that we shall use until the official announcement is made.

[mirv]

Q posted what a Dirndl is. A simple google helps too.

[Qaridarium]

Would OpenCL run at the speed of the card or at the speed of the driver optimizations? (ignoring that it has to pass through some software layers to get to the card)

OpenCL kernels running on the GPU should not be impacted by driver optimization while they are running on the GPU, right?

i think its a mix of both hardware speed and driver optimizations.

[EarthMind]

At least this time it's software that's already compatible with Linux, unlike the Lightworks video editor, which we probably won't see natively supported on linux for another 5-10 years.