On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:25 PM, chris clepper wrote:
On 12/4/06, IOhannes m zmoelnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>
> Since many people have non-nvidia cards, would it be possible to
make
> the default Gem build not dependent on nvidia-specific stuff? Then
> there could be --enable-nvidia for people who want that.
no.
as said before, i see (!) configure as a way to build a package
optimized for the machine that configure is executed on.
it is not a tool to make the most stripped down version.
Since performance is quite vital to the software working in the
intended manner, we make decisions based on what provides the most
efficient path in the code not some generic computer spec. At the
same time we don't really limit what hardware can run GEM even
though there are certainly hardware and driver set ups entirely
unsuitable for the software.
I think that all the optimization that you guys have done is great.
But it would be very helpful to a lot of people if the optimization
did not prevent those of us with older hardware from even starting Gem.
.hc
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