[Bf-committers] Cycles performance on Windows

[Gavin Howard]

Congratulations, Jürgen!
Gavin H.


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com> wrote:

> Hi Ton,
>
> Just got it ;-) Thank you very much!
> I'll read the rules completely first, promised :-D
>
> Thanks
> Jürgen
>
> Am 13.05.2013 um 18:00 schrieb Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>:
>
> > Hi Jürgen,
> >
> > You've been added now, and should have a welcome mail in your inbox.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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-
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 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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