Codex News

Well, its Christmas at last!!! Codex will be a snow sports / shopping / attending dinners etc. kind of company as of now. Till uhm... let's say January the 4th, shall we? :-)

Merry Christmas to everyone, and good business to you!

- "In 2008, we will work hard to finally find a spot for these two bonsai trees over there..." - theodore karkoulis

Ok, I've just finished the initial port of libfreevec to Cell. Both freevec and benchsuite run fine with no problems, but of course performance is not great. It's good, even now it's better than glibc, but it can get much better, I've done nothing specific for the cell/64-bit features.

Stay tuned...

... is certainly very user friendly. Does it give you the intalling/configuration power during install that linux is supposed to give you though?

We'll find out soon i guess... 70% of the configurability (and 10% of the errors) of the Debian installer would put it quite high on the rank list.

so far everything is graphical, tidy, and i got loads of progressbars and that sort. (not too much of a progressbar person myself really, but oh well)

... and even more progressbars were in store for me :-) - First bad thing i've noticed: I do NOT want X,

...simply becaude Gentoo/Debian/Ubuntu all need tweaking to work with cell programming, and IBM's tools only run in rpm based systems (Fedora for instance) by default.

Therfore, YDL it is. Im not too happy about that, my preference would be gentoo/debian, but we'll use those as execution platforms via the live cds to test our code, rather than devel platforms.

not to mention the option of cross-compiling, in the future though. First, the ps3 needs to be tested with success. So far we managed to run some tests but although they open threads for the diff

gentoo on the new ps3, easier to install than on amd64 or apple.

compiling world now, i think it saw the 6 spe's but failed to load a module of some sort, but cant really deal with it now, too tired - 3 am here

looks great though :-)