[Bf-committers] Cycles performance on Windows

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Jürgen,

You've been added now, and should have a welcome mail in your inbox.
Thanks!

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 11 May, 2013, at 19:38, Jürgen Herrmann wrote:

> Hi Ton, 
> 
> I would be proud to be a part of the blender team. I actually had some
> patches in the Patch tracker that were committed by Brecht. He should be
> able to judge about their quality.
> Look here:
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=35158
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=35131
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=35234
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=35019
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=35153
> 
> I have a full set of x64 prerequisite libs freshly compiled and I am
> currently working on compiling the x86 libs.
> I've also extended the CMakeFiles to include the new libs and compiler
> settings. I always doublecheck all changes with VC2008 so I don't break
> compatibility.
> 
> /Jürgen.
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: bf-committers-bounces at blender.org
> [mailto:bf-committers-bounces at blender.org] Im Auftrag von Ton Roosendaal
> Gesendet: Samstag, 11. Mai 2013 18:43
> An: bf-blender developers
> Betreff: Re: [Bf-committers] Cycles performance on Windows
> 
> Hi Jurgen,
> 
> You're very welcome to join the windows platform team as maintainer for MSVC
> 2012.
> Did you already have patches we should apply? We typically give people
> commit access after a couple of good patches.
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
> 
> On 10 May, 2013, at 22:02, Jürgen Herrmann wrote:
> 
>> This sounds reasonable. So we need a lightning fast math library
> replacement for MS compilers...
>> I'm just kidding, but the idea might be insane enough to try ;)
>> 
>> I am very satisfied with the speed improvement that MSVC 2012 has brought
> to blender. I would love to see this in the wild. It could make some people
> very happy.
>> 
>> I would volunteer to maintain this build platform if desired.
>> 
>> /Jürgen
>> 
>> 
>> Am 10.05.2013 um 20:17 schrieb Antony Riakiotakis <kalast at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> According to the MinGW64 developers, the math library implementation 
>>> is faster for gcc. The simulations use openmp which is disabled in 
>>> MinGW64 due to their buggy pthread implementation which makes openmp 
>>> hang when used during pthread execution.
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