always learning something new, I never think was possible to create a website in C
If you think, it is not so unnatural. Many web servers are written in C. Especially in embedded systems, it makes sense write a UI in HTML for exposing some data to the external world. You can have a very simple web-server written in C (it must support very few users and the web-server API is simple), and simple C code emitting HTML output. You are using few resources on the embedded part, and the majority of power is used on the web-browser client-side.
I tried now to compile SDL3 and vim, under FreeBSD quarterly ports, on a cloud host, using some unspecified shared AMD Epyc CPU. I limited the jail to one single CPU. SDL3 required 55 seconds (only the build, the configure part was probably longer). vim required 118s.
Then a P4
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Sure, since the most impactful open-source projects are old and evergreen. Such as SDL, busybox, Vim, etc.
A weaker integrated GPU, no replaceable parts, less standardized architecture for desktop usage compared to x86... big old list. Also, no fans is not the "benefit" you may think it is.
Energy consumption when compiling software isn't that big a gap. If you are worried about energy usage, use a 14inch 1024x768 monitor. I notice that's always the real power saver.
Heh, a P4 can happily read docs in a web browser. This concept has been around since the 90s.
Yeah, so the main P4 I use is an IBM NetVista 6790-21G (32-bit Willamette). I also have a more modern Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P (64-bit Prescott).
Its more common the other way round, that devs assume 32-bit ints and pointers are interchangeable breaking code for 64-bit platforms. But yes, this exactly why older machines are useful for testing broken code. Assuming any word size is incorrect and avoiding older hardware just to sidestep your broken code is not good practice.
Yeah but those same people would then struggle with developing on a Pi (or even some crappy Android phone). People do arrive at weird conclusions daily, I can't protect everyone.
I do, and often with more exotic machines (big fan of 2001 SPARC machines). But then again, much of my PhD was on resilience and portability of software, so it kind of comes with the territory. But the key message is that development hasn't considerably changed from that era. So needing to buy "modern" machines to develop open-source software is simply incorrect. And you can pick these things up for £30.
You absolutely can. I am not sure what you are doing wrong. I believe FreeBSD even supports i440fx chipsets.
I don't know Rust, but I'm using (or I'm interested) into many projects written in it, like: Niri wayland compositor; Meta Sapling version control system; Pijul version control system; ripgrep; Alacritty; Helix editor; Zed editor; Meta Buck2.
It doesn't look correct. As a base, under full load that chip alone can get to 16W. Then you want to include the same accessories as the P4 machine. Consider SSD, keyboard, cdrom, etc, it could even start to near 40W. If you remove the dedicated GPU and sound card from the desktop machine, it will bring that down too.
So the best AGP card is generally the Radeon HD 4670 AGP. This has ~480 GFLOPs vs the Raspberry Pi 5's ~125GFLOPS.
Naive yes, because I didn't checked. It seems so natural to me that a rather modern ARM CPU can beat the worst processor Intel made, 25 years ago, also in single-core tasks.
FreeBSD 15 does not support i386, so it is even worse. At least I can hope that the Linux drivers will be ported to FreeBSD.
I have no time to check if a rather modern GPU can work with i386 drivers on Linux or FreeBSD 14. But it is a Frankstein. It does not make logical sense.
never heard of that one (but that's not a big surprise because I live under a rock). *click-click* ...meh. It's a VCS. I don't have repos that big.
$ sl commit -m "Fix bug"
$ vim broken_file.rs
$ sl commit -m "Add test"I'm using Sapling in a personal project, on a small repo, and it works wonderfully. It can interoperate with Git repo, with push and pull too.
Completely wrong, not much, also because it is a successful project.