the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

Matthias Andree ma at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Nov 25 15:48:47 PST 2004


Matthias Buelow <mkb at mukappabeta.de> writes:

> (but are probably well-known to the competitor).  With the drivers 
> getting bigger and bigger (the ATI Catalyst graphics driver component 
> alone is over 8 megs), maybe a lot of the logics is actually in the 
> proprietary driver code?

Likely. The same can be seen for CPUs, more and more specialization is
in the compiler. Ask Intel, Sun or Mips how much they're spending on
chip development and how much on compiler development. :)

-- 
Matthias Andree


More information about the freebsd-stable mailing list