[Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)

[Randolph M. Fritz]

Google offers the "Native Client" SDK
(https://developer.chrome.com/native-client), which supports
compilation and download of code with gcc (wince) and a set of
non-Unix APIs (double wince.) Also, of course, one can just work with
the base Linux on ChromeOS, bypassing the browser completely.

So far as I can see, these tools aren't much used yet; ChromeOS is not
a major development platform. But they are there and at the rate the
major platforms are diverging from general computing applications,
they may be all that will be left in a few years. :-(
--
Randolph M. Fritz, Lighting Design and Simulation
+1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com


On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
> It will be interesting to see what ChromeOS develops into.  Right now, it's more of a browser manager for accessing online tools, and doesn't have much in the way of compilers or a runtime environment to speak of.  Kind of a waste of a laptop, if you ask me....
>
> -Greg
>
>> From: "Randolph M. Fritz" <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)
>> Date: August 24, 2015 4:53:04 PM PDT
>>
>> Sigh. I think in a few more years, anyone who is interested in
>> scientific computing, rather than business functions or social
>> networking, is going to be running ChromeOS.
>> --
>> Randolph M. Fritz, Lighting Design and Simulation
>> +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Many thanks for the quick turn-around on that, Rob!  This mostly applies to Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) users, but anyone who cares to do a before/after timing, that would also be useful.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Greg
>>>
>>>> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)
>>>> Date: August 21, 2015 2:47:03 PM PDT
>>>>
>>>> To that end, I just moved the NREL 5.0.a.4 release tag up to Greg's latest
>>>> commit, and have posted a fresh Mac installer on there, so now you don't
>>>> even have to be able to compile from source to help Greg test this out!
>>>> Come and get it:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/tag/5.0.a.4
>>>>
>>>> Windows (including 32-bit!) and Linux packages will be re-made and
>>>> re-posted to this release page shortly.
>>>>
>>>> - Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/21/15, 2:19 PM, "Greg Ward" <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have not tested all the programs fully under Yosemite to make sure
>>>>> there are no more deadlocks.  I would appreciate help on that from the
>>>>> user community ahead of the official 5.0 release, which I'm hoping to get
>>>>> out in the next week or so.  That means getting a 5.0a installer out or
>>>>> getting volunteers who don't mind compiling from source to run rvu,
>>>>> rtrace, rcontrib, genBSDF, etc. in -n >1 mode....
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> -Greg
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and
>>>>>> Yosemite bug)
>>>>>> Date: August 21, 2015 1:06:40 PM PDT
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is fantastic news! (Roland/Lars, take note...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't recall, is there a concrete test for the fork() thing? I was
>>>>>> just in the midst of re-making the Radiance packages (we need to support
>>>>>> 32-bit Windows still), but I will *happily* reset the release tag to
>>>>>> this commit and start over again, if it means I get to re-enable
>>>>>> OpenStudio-Radiance multithreading on Yosemite!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8/21/15, 12:59 PM, "Gregory J. Ward"
>>>>>> <gregoryjward at gmail.com<mailto:gregoryjward at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In any event, I checked in a change that I'm hoping fixes this issue
>>>>>> under Yosemite, while not costing us too much on all the other Unix
>>>>>> platforms that don't have this issue.
>>>
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