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Black big-endian and little-endian

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This is my home working place where I can port software from little-endian machine to big-endian:Red table bought in IKEA. Right-bottom: Systemax server with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 ГГц (Slackware 12.2). Right-top: PowerMac G4 Cube (colored to black) with Debian 5.0 and preloaded libfreevec. Left-bottom: subwoofer Logitech, power adapter for Cube and Gigabit switch. Left-top: UPS CyberPower 1500AVR. In the center under the table: KVM IOGEAR (switching USB keyboard+mouse and VGA between both machines). In the center on the … Continue Reading

Vectorized memcpy on G4 Cube

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Again I tested new hardware using my memcpy benchmark – now for my 1st desktop on Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz and my 2nd desktop on PowerPC G4 450 MHz (black G4 Cube). Here you can see not-aligned (nal) and aligned (al) results and also “vectorized” results (G4-450v-nal and G4-450v-al) where memcpy was AltiVec optimized version from libfreevec v1.0.4.P.S. If you want optimized AltiVec versions of such functions as bmove512, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, … Continue Reading

My G4 Cube turns BLACK

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I decided to use G4 Cube as my second desktop computer. But my first desktop PC is black. So I bought black enamel spray for a reason to paint Cube to black color. The subject to turn black is internal metallic case:Now I have stylish black colored G4 Cube with Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” on board :) P.S. Lenny believes that X.org became smart enough to … Continue Reading

G4 Cube

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Finally I did it – I bought G4 Cube for myself! $250 (plus shipping) for PowerPC G4 450 MHz system is a little bit expensive, but it’s CUBE:It even has “cracks” (as probably all G4 cubes ;) Of course I put Debian GNU/Linux on it and removed MacOS 9.2 that was preinstalled there.One strange (for me) thing about G4 Cube is its power … Continue Reading