[TIP] Everybody wants a pony!
Andrew Dalke
dalke at dalkescientific.com
Wed Apr 1 06:01:50 PDT 2009
On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:07 AM, C. Titus Brown wrote:
> Scientists care [about those platforms]. ... I should
> also say that a few core developers are enthusiastic about
> finally having access to weird/esoteric types of dev boxes
> (bigmem, non-intel, etc.) So I think it's a 5%-er kind of
> issue, but nonetheless significant.
I was talking to one vendor recently who support a large
number of platforms. While it's a hassle, the breadth of
different compilers helped identify problematic code.
They do write software for scientists....
Andrew
dalke at dalkescientific.com
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