From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 11:40:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8BD1563C for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA06284; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:45:11 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01396; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:30:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:30:45 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Brian Kraemer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991223203044.E1056@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <199912222226.XAA00562@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from kraemer@u.washington.edu on Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 08:01:26AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 08:01:26AM -0800, Brian Kraemer wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > No. I submitted my code to the Seti@home folks for review, > > they said "great, thanks!" and I've never heard anything from > > them again. :-( > > Actually, I think I read somewhere once that the SETI@home people are > worried that if they made optimizations to their clients, their servers > and staff would not be able to keep up with all the data pouring in at a > faster rate. They never really expected the kind of turnout they received > in the first place. Sjeez. If that is true they should consider how much energy is wasted because machines are not used to their capacity. Or alternatively the same work could be done with less CPUs. Really, sounds like silly reason to me. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message