Amiga OS4 & CeBit 2003

[Juzz]

tony: better late than never , is a word we all want to hear soon , i am not a blind follower but i will wait for os4 and my a1xe800.

Well, you and Tony can start looking forward to playing with the A1XE - it is running very nicely :-D
Actually it is this board that I am using to post right now - using SuSE PPC 7.3 and Opera 6.11 :-P

[Juzz]

Details, details man! Give us details! Give a small review if possible .

Well, I did post a small benchmark here :-D
The G4 is definitely showing some muscle and that is even without altivec support in dnetc (which I am working on with some other developers to try to get into the dnetc client)  :-P

[Juzz]

On personal note; The following benchmarks would be nice.  1. Quake I and II (SW render) 2. 68K AmigaMark 2003. 3. MPEG2 to MPEG4 conversion.

Well one of the others with an XE tested Sin against an AMD Duron 850. The timedemo yielded 10 FPS on the AMD and 19 FPS for the G4.
Timerefresh yielded 13 FPS on the Duron and 26 FPS on the G4.

Quake x86 has an assembler texture mapper, whereas the PPC is using a 'C' texture mapper.

[Juzz]

AltiVec support for OGR has always been in the PPC Linux client AFAIK

Yes, for the CPU's that the client recognizes (ie. the ones that has been added to the source of the client).
And it has to be compiled via an Altivec enabled compiler AFAIK.

[Juzz]

But you do use a supported CPU (this is the Teron PX with an 800 MHz 7451, right?), and you do get the same result as other AltiVec enabled clients on the same CPU in the dnet client speed database.

Hmm... Well I tried the short version...
But, no the dnetc client does not see the Altivec unit in the G4 yet!
I am not sure why, but it simply refuses to run the PPC-Vector core - which is the one using the Altivec. I have even tried manually selecting the altivec-enabled core, but no go....
So I am in the process of compiling gcc-3.2.2 right now, so that I can compile the source code that I have altered (in cooperation with some of the other developers - they point, I try to insert the right things at the right place).
And, yes, distributed.net does give out their source code - however they are the only ones allowed to distribute the binary - so if anyone improves the source code to include more platforms/cpu's whatever - then you have to submit the code to them - and then they will release the fresh binary.
 :-)