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I won’t go here in depth on how to use git, the official hub has already tutorials to get you started. I’m more interested here in the workflow you can apply and the tools you can use when working on Mono with git-svn (although it can be mostly used in [...]
(Shamelessly inspired from Stéphane)
Since image processing is both trendy and a good candidate for parallel optimizations, I took the time to implement a little program that compute a part of the Mandelbrot set (a well known fractal) in a fancy way :
Now for the facts & numbers :
Sequential generation : 26.5s
Parallel generation : 13.7s
Effective speedup [...]
Mono room
So if you weren’t aware of it yet, Mono is going to have its own dedicated room at FOSDEM. In order to spread Mono awesomeness, submit talks here before the 20th. You can even decide yourself how much time you are going to use so don’t hesitate to speak about a cool software you [...]
As of Linux kernel 2.6.31 (currently available on Arch Linux for instance), due to a change in the iwl* drivers, the sysfs entries that were managing power saving on related WiFi chips was removed due to some power management-related bugs.
As such, it’s impossible to manually set powersaving either using sysfs or via a command like [...]
Shameless plug to tell I’m alive .
If you are using Wicd and usually stare at Banshee trying to download cover art or post to last.fm while you are disconnected, the following patch add just the support to fix this.
Here is the associated bug report to get the patch integrated.
In other news, school restarted [...]
Here are some tips you should follow if you want to get the maximum performance out of a Linq query parallelized with PLinq (at least with upcoming Mono version) :
Use an indexed data structure as your source like an array, a list or anything which implements the generic IList<T> interface.
You can also use ParallelEnumerable.Repeat and [...]
Erik Meijer, guru at MS Research, has recently given a talk at OSCON 2009 introducing functional programming in a funny way. Highly recommended if you have always wondered what all fuss about side effects and purity is about.
Check it out : http://blip.tv/file/2402061/
He even cite Mono around 4:30 (btw Erik, Mono has supported C# 3.0 for [...]
Interested by the stuff I demonstrated some weeks ago ?
Check out the following message on Moonlight mailing-list for instructions on how to get the same thing.
Just to make you salivate :
BubbleMark running at ~50 fps without too much visual glitches
(direct link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekfb6jCyDmM)
Watching my teammate hacking on moonlight was sure to detain on me someday. So when Alan talked about making Moonlight run on top of OpenVG I got pretty hooked.
Two hacking days later, I actually got something to « work ». At the moment it’s quite rough, hacky and it probably kills kitteh too (be careful, it makes [...]
