Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:41:27 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NEWS: NVIDIA Open-Sources Its CUDA Compiler Message-ID: <4F787727.1040209@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20120329212322.20605a7b@nonamehost.> References: <4EE938FB.7010107@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20120329212322.20605a7b@nonamehost.>
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