Hi All, lots to mention so I'll keep it brief. Discussion welcome. More than enough raised your hand to mentor for GSoC, so our application is in! We'll find out by Friday next week. In the meantime, discuss and update the ideas page ASAP: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas
While the schedule was pooched, server upgrade went through cleanly so the website is now an 8-core beauty with ample memory. VGR performance count is looking like 22k! That's ~15x faster than .bz was and around ~8x faster than crit. The multiple cores should make for snappy pages. I applied Akshay's GCI linux thread affinity patch and reran the comparison. Earlier test showed 50% increase. Not the whole picture. Latest test on that same 64-core showed a 250% increase! (115k to 290k VGR!) Obviously heavily influenced by core activity, but just awesome. I simplified and extended the implementation for BSD, Mac, and Windows. Great work Akshay. I've also nearly finished implementing a new super fast small memory allocator that is outperforming bu_malloc and friends by anywhere from 50% to 5000+%, basically reducing allocation time to near zero. It's not going to be enabled before release, but this new interface is geared for performance code. More on this later as profiling results come in. Finally, I've been rushing through a lot of fronts lately, but pushing for source release. I'll probably be sending out e-mails asking for info and help as I get through my 350 or so pending reviews. Documenting the user-visible changes and hunting regressions. Wanna help? Add user-visible changes in NEWS, GCI patches, test compiles, and don't make more work (run distcheck-full). ;) Once release is out, I'll be focusing on our pending patches and the heap changes. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2 _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
