Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC
27 points by raymii
27 points by raymii
GPU: Loongson LG100
Oh, apparently it is an actual GPU, with a proprietary driver available.
At idle it consumes about 27W
Ouch ><
It seems that the pure Rust 3.x series of protobuf-parse is not maintained. The new 4.x series managed by Google has a totally different API with C dependencies
Wow, even a protobuf crate got Google Reader'd… I'd recommend all these projects to switch to prost.
Oh that's a good find regarding the GPU driver info, interesting. And yes, the protobuf crate situation is certainly unfortunate. The affected projects have little reason to do the work to upgrade or move to prost, since for the most part it's working for them. Perhaps a good stopgap would someone (like me) forking the 3.x branch and just bumping the dependencies to at provide something easy for them to upgrade to.
That is a seriously noisy fan. I'm surprised they thought anyone would use that on a desktop. Does it seem to get particularly hot?
I think one of the primary intended use cases for it is as an industrial PC, so noise is probably not such an issue there. It doesn't seem particularly hot, no. Although it does have to dissipate 30W constantly.
Interesting. fwiw, your aliexpress link was broken for me, but so was any other aliexpress link I could find via google, so maybe it's on my end. I just wanted a rough price (I found ~350 EUR).
I think it's blocked in some places for some reason. Definitely not available in Germany.
That would be pretty recent and I missed it, also aliexpress.com loads... somewhat. I still think it's a routing issue whereas your subdomain link didn't resolve.
But yeah, I think it's on my end and I've not ordered there for 1-2 years.
All Speedometer tests were done in modern Firefox...
Funny, my firefox doesn't have a "modern" version, just an actual version number....
I wonder how much the performance difference of those Firefox benchmarks is attributable to SpiderMonkey's loongarch JIT backend being less mature and hence (presumably) less optimized than x86
Probably not as much as you would think: the backends certainly have a non-zero performance impact and there is some support for per-architecture lowering at the intermediate representation level, but my impression is the majority of SpiderMonkey's most productive or significant optimizations occur at higher levels well before codegen.