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martinoff

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Registered: 2011-03-28

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What exactly is this Dirndl?

can explain a little more this

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any dev are testing it ?
is this the end of gcc ?

-- mod edit: no blog plugging please, see the original article karol linked below

Last edited by litemotiv (2011-06-10 19:50:48)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

This article talks about Opterons and this one about Sandy Bridge.

Last edited by karol (2011-06-10 20:23:38)

Army

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

You want to know what a Dirndl is? Take a look here. Mmmmmmmh, sexy ladies *lol*

edit: Oh fsck, I missed my 1000th post ... :'-(

Last edited by Army (2011-06-10 21:12:30)

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

It's likely to be the EKOPath compiler.

http://cuduwudu.com/2011/06/want-to-tri … tribution/

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Grinch

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

Well, it seems it's one of two things: 1) the EKOPath compiler suite from Pathscale 2) A gpugp compiler which Pathscale has talked about earlier which they claim will wipe the floor with cuda/opencl in terms of not needing to (manually?) change your source code in order for it to efficiently utilize cpu+gpu.

End of GCC? What? GCC unlike Pathscale (AMD/intel 64/32) products supports a TON of cpu architectures. Then we have other things like the issue of compability with GCC, it's one thing to say you are compatible with GCC and actually be able to build GCC targeted code (99.99% of open source), prime examples Intel Compiler/Clang/LLVM which struggle despite being 'compatible'. Also the current benchmark testbed is awfully small to say the least.

Either way, I love competition in the compiler arena, and if this can deliver the potential displayed by these few tests on alot more code then it can be an awesome addition to the open source compiler lineup.

falconindy: there's a trailing 'v' on the url you provided which makes it go to the frontpage of the blog rather than to the blog post

Last edited by Grinch (2011-06-11 00:20:12)

Hyugga

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2010-03-26

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

I hope this works for most computers, not only opteron or intel sandy bridge, like it's shown in the tests.

Viper_Scull

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Registered: 2011-01-15

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

Question is....Will arch ever switch to Ekopath4?

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Grinch

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Registered: 2010-11-07

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

Question is....Will arch ever switch to Ekopath4?

Well, first of all we don't know if it's actually EkoPath that is being released. Secondly, even if it is Ekopath it only supports Intel/AMD 64bit, AFAIK. Third, we have the compability problem, will EkoPath compile all the packages or will they require changes? Will code start breaking here and there? I can't speak for the Arch devs, but I personally doubt it very much. Obviously it will still be a GREAT additional compiler, particularly to use with CPU intensive programs if the benchmarks hold true, but replacing GCC as the base system compiler, again I don't find that very likely.

dcc24

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

All right, ekopath has been released under the GPL. Now who will be the first to create a PKGBUILD?

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Grinch

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

Yes bring it!! I'll probably be benchmarking stuff until my eyes bleed

karol

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

Another thread is here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120786

MuPuF

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

All right, ekopath has been released under the GPL. Now who will be the first to create a PKGBUILD?

Already here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41846

All the features aren't available ... yet. It will land soon. Phoronix has been too fast anouncing this release.

falconindy

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

Nothing to see here...

/me needs to pay more attention to dates

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dcc24

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

Hmm, I'll leave this running overnight. We'll see how it goes

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martinoff

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Registered: 2011-03-28

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Re: What exactly is this Dirndl?

get my answer thanks