Best graphics performance?

David Fokkema dfokkema at ileos.nl
Thu May 28 10:59:18 CEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:53 +0100, Tilman Baumann wrote:
> David Fokkema wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:07 +0200, arne anka wrote:
> >> > freerunner, they're not optimized at all. Period.
> >>
> >> that's certainly true -- but if you write your app for a commonly used
> >> desktop pc it is rather a matter of effort/result relationship how much
> >> energy one spends on optimization.
> >> the estimated improvements are probably not worth mentioning, so one
> >> rather goes for other tasks.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> >> that's why i proposed to give away a freerunner, so the developer might
> >> actually see optimization make a difference, boosting his spirits ...
> >> ;-)
> >
> > To be absolutely clear on this: I think it's a great idea!
> 
> Let's see if the Navit guy)s) thin the same way. For now it looks like
> nobody is awake there at the mailing list...

That's a shame. Hopefully, somebody will wake up before long... Of
course, it would be nice to give the FR to a person who's actually
looking forward to this task.

> 
> > Of course,
> > unlike most cofundos tasks, we should give the bounty _before_ the task
> > is finished, ;-)
> 
> Sure. I would only like to use it to track commitment. Because I don't
> want to buy the phone all by my self.

That's a sensible thing to do, ;-) After all, they're not _that_ cheap,
unless you happen to go to debconf.

David




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