Each one has different sets of special cases. For instance, for the
i128, I accelerated 8xN, 8xN, 10xN, 6xN, 7xN, and 12xN characters
differently from how I did all other sizes just so I could get more
performance.
That's a incredible amount of things you have optimized!
I have a long list of chips I've supported, which I'm not sure I
should mention, some of which did not have nice ways of supporting
some of these functions, but I came up with ways of doing them anyhow.
As a result of this, we tended to be able to beat competitors in
xmarks scores, even those who were using faster hardware, and we
usually beat those who used the same hardware.
Hehe =)
When the hardware is available, and we can talk some people into
helping with the drivers, I'm going to be giving plenty of
suggestions, and I'll be sending lots of patches, because the
situation we have here is that to compensate for slow hardware, we
must produce a fantastic driver that gets squeezes every last bit of
capability and speed out of what we have.
I think people will find it fun to find ways to optimize the driver. I am looking forward for some mighty good drivers =)
> If it could speed up/smooth the scrolling in Gnome Terminal that would be
> so nice! Those Anti Aliased fonts really kills it.
And antialiased fonts is something that we can probably accelerate
well with OGA.
That sounds good =)
I'm sure that a reputable news source like Tom's Hardware never biases
their tests.
They sadly do=(
Toms have for a very long time been pro Intel, but at the moment they are pro AMD, and that reflects their reviews greatly.
Take e.g. this article "The Heat Can Cause Intel's P4 To Throttle And Damage Over Time"
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041114/index.html
That article came the very same day that every other hardware sites came out with the review of 3.8GHz CPU. Everybody had got a sample except Toms. The mesage seams to be: This is what happens when we got get a sample!
Try read this cooler test. Even before the test has begun, it it clear what companies of the coolers they don't like!
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050607/cpu-cooler-01.html
There is a "famous" review of two gfx cards (nVidia and ATi) where they where tested with Quake 3 at 640x480 and 800x600. No doubt nVidia had the best card according to the test. But many gamers found it strange why they tested with these resolutions, because no hardcore gamer plays in anything below 1280x1024.
If the same test was run with 1600x1200 and 1280x1024, ATi was the clear winner!
Or when reading about the inner workings of digital cameras it is not unusual that a surden model of a Canon camera out of nowhere is adviced.
Yeah, sure. Why not. If you don't have any money to get an
inventory, you could just start trying to get people to place orders.
When you get 100 orders, you order 100, and you get a discount that
you get to pocket when you sell. Then when you have built enough
capital, you can just buy an inventory of them.
That is not a very good deal for me or the customers =)
If I was a customers, I would expect to get the product shipped right away when I place an order. After all it is a lot of money we are dealing with here incase the customers is tricked.
If I were to be an official distributor for TT in letøs say EU, I would not want to invest in e.g. 100 cards of my own money. Anyone can buy 100 cards from TT, and sell they. There most be an advantage of being a TT distributor, e.g. having a stock that belongs to TT.
I would assume that is how it works with distributors?
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