When I was in South Africa, you'd start a download, and go to bed. Then be disappointed as one forgot to block the system from going to sleep.
When moving to the UK the cheapest broadband solution was only a literal 60× faster (and a quarter the price) than what I had, I started wasting time waiting for games to download.

Such is life :shrug:

Edit: I once went to a friends job which was at a datacentre, plugged my notebook in, and was astounded that I got a full 100mbit download speed!
Life was simpler back then, I expected less from everything.

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Or rather that they don't see the need to be too accurate. You see there is no public shareholders demanding they somehow make every cent possible, so it's OK to potentially miss an opportunity to get every cent of value in spite of your customers.

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This is awesome!

I can attest how frustrating it is to try and debug a hardware issue that's intermittent. Seriously well done for persevering.

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Apparently `radeonsi` is considered the gold standard in MESA world, so it would be a good metric to track. Once we get to 99.5% of radeonsi performance it would be good.

But, lets say we hit 99.5% of the performance, the remaining large concerns would be suddenly breaking compatibility with some obscure (or professional-class) application that was using it?
Basically someone would have to pay for Certification against all the professional OpenGL applications.

And there's outstanding features, such as VAAPI video decode acceletation, etc...
Some of the simpler/older algorithms could probably be coded as Compute Shaders, but you'd not get the right kind of performance if you skip the various hardware blocks.

I feel starting at e.g. Nouveau was probably the right call. Lets fix up the basics needed by modern X/Wayland compositors.
Next up would be some of the less-well-supported ARM video drivers, there the video acceleration blocks are quite important.

It's a long journey, but honestly it seems very much like a good journey.

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Issue is Sweeny doesn't own his own company anymore. Investors own it, and they only care about getting dividends or even better, buybacks, every quarter.

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Awesome news. Zink is really paying off for a single complex OpenGL state tracker instead of many complex OpenGL state trackers each with different bugs.

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That's actually a very good design. Clever

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To you and all, don't leave issues in comments, email me any website bugs: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/email-us/

Apologies, it really was a rage post. The fact that you saw it was way higher than my expectations :grin:
Thanks for being awesome!

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Nooo! why does it DELETE my long response because of a "token error"? Where did it go? So frustrating!

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Eeek! I suddenly have the urge to try the demo!

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