Re: TODO list?

2003-06-28 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
be commited in the same way as the three PRs reported by Joseph Holland King? -- Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers! Joachim Strömbergson Joachim Strömbergson - ASIC designer, nice to *cute* animals. snail: phone

Apple and BSD (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-16 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
in the monthly development newsletter or something? It's way to good not to be written down. Just my 1 Euro. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers! Joachim Strömbergson Joachim Strömbergson - ASIC designer, nice to *cute

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-04-18 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
AlohA! Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: Linux/GNU people in association with AMD have already begun work on x86-64 versions of gcc and binutils. If Linux ports first, which in my opinion they probably will since they are working on it actively, FreeBSD can only gain from the work already done by the

Re: gcc 2.95.3 and STL

2001-03-28 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! David O'Brien wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:45:37AM +0100, Benny Prijono wrote: the March 2001 edition of C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com) has surveys on comformance level of each C++ compiler and STL implementation. You may want to take a look at it. I didn't see

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-16 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! In an earlier mail to the thread I pointed to the STREAM benchmark for memory sub systems. Additionally, I wrote that I knew there were another benchmark that tries to analyze word sizes, access latencies for the different memories in the mem sub system. I know can name that benchmark (or

Re: Kernel area libmish stuff (Cordic algorithm)

2001-03-15 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! Peter Jeremy wrote: For a totally different approach, try Cordic algorithms. Cordic algorithms let you implement circular and hyperbolic functions (including exponential, log and sqrt) using add, subtract, shift and table lookup. (An n-bit result needs an n-entry x n-bit table, 2n

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-06 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! Still, wouldn't it be prudent if someone from the project talked to Maxtor and got some feedback on this? They obviously (or should we assume conspiracy?) had some real technical issues with FreeBSD, and also had problems dealing with them properly. Clarification on this should (could) be

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-06 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Hola! Jordan Hubbard wrote: That could be, assuming that we had any idea just who inside of Maxstor to discuss it with. Do you have any names and email addresses? Not personally, but taken from the article about this issue, one person that obviously knows about this is Steve Wilkins,

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-05 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! (Sorry for jumping right in to the thread here...) This might be a good time to mention the STREAM benchmark developed by John McCalpin. It measures sustained bandwidth of systems. The official web page is at: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ If you check the section under