Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was typically accessible at the time outside of universities and LANs. Could be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Francesco Riosa
2011/12/22 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was typically accessible at the time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:11:32 +0100 Francesco Riosa viv...@gmail.com wrote: I tried messing around with this with Amazon EC2.  The problem was that due to latency I only really saw the benefit for VERY high levels of parallelization (think -j25+)..  However, make isn't actually

[gentoo-dev] Re: Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:09:16 -0500 as excerpted: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Just wanted to point out that (if there is enough memory) recent kernels manage much better parallelism, even excess of it, once reached the maximum

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag neon for ARM NEON optimization(s)

2011-12-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
i'll add USE=neon to use.desc and punt the local descriptions if nobody objects media-libs/libpng: support ARM NEON cpu instruction set media-libs/vo-aacenc: Enable neon cpu instructions media-video/ffmpeg: Enables NEON optimizations for arm processors. media-video/libav: Enable NEON

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-radio/fldigi (unless patched for fltk-1.3)

2011-12-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (23 Dec 2011) # Missing fltk-1.3 support and forced downgrade of fltk # in the same stabilization level which makes this gentoo-x86 # incompatible package. Bug 395747. Removal in 30 days. media-radio/fldigi