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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:27:23 +0200
From: Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@...uxasylum.net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: OpenCL runtime errors

On 04/11/2012 09:11 AM, magnum wrote:
> On 04/11/2012 05:59 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
>> magnum, Lukas, all -
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 01:11:57AM +0200, magnum wrote:
>>> While experimenting with RAR I found a detail that stops many runtime
>>> errors similar to the ones mentioned - and makes adjustment to different
>>> devices (including really weak ones) easier. Most current OpenCL formats
>>> (I think all except mine) use this to determine the device's maximum
>>> local worksize:
>>> (...)
>>
>> Great.  I see that you've already implemented it for RAR.  Who is to do
>> it for the rest - the authors of those other pieces of code, or you?
> 
> Not sure. I was hoping Samuele would find a good shared find_best_lws()
> function for common-opencl.c but I realise it might be tricky to get one
> work for any slow or fast format.

At the moment i'm quite stuck with private matters to take the time to
look at it, so i don't want to "lock" any development, feel free to
change it on my code too.

cheers
Samuele

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