What if Dolphin were to be optimized for long term support versions of Ubuntu? That way Dolphin has the best performance possible on the Ubuntu platform.
The next LTS release will be 14.04
The next LTS release will be 14.04
Optimize Dolphin for LTS releases of Ubuntu
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08-31-2013, 03:37 PM
What if Dolphin were to be optimized for long term support versions of Ubuntu? That way Dolphin has the best performance possible on the Ubuntu platform.
The next LTS release will be 14.04 08-31-2013, 05:08 PM
That doesn't mean anything.
08-31-2013, 05:08 PM
The short answer is no. The long answer is no way.
First of all, a vast majority of Dolphin's code is cross-platform and OS agnostic (straight-up C++). I doubt the developers want to go through the trouble of making specific optimizations for a specific Linux distro. There may be certain optimizations limited to certain platforms (the D3D11 backend for example, or some Linux/Unix stuff) from time to time, but nothing to the extent where Dolphin is heavily optimized for one platform as opposed to another. Secondly, your whole idea is pretty vague for anyone to actually work with. How would Dolphin be optimized for Ubuntu and Ubuntu alone? What does Ubuntu really do that other Linux distros can't? People often casually talk about "optimizations" as if there were always easy opportunities to dramatically or significantly improve performance, but that's not always the case, especially in mature projects. 09-01-2013, 06:05 AM
Shonumi pretty much sums it up. Even if Dolphin were optimized for Ubuntu, there's not much difference between Ubuntu and other distros that would even matter, let alone differences between Ubuntu and Ubuntu LTS releases. Performance increases would be negligible.
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