I don't ficken get it at all. What about all the new PowerPC game consoles... Microsoft is using PowerPC for christ's sake, and all the cell processor...
... It seems fairly simple to me. Apple has always played the chip makers against each other, going to whichever offers what they want at the moment. They...
... NPR mentioned it might be related to the fact that laptop sales have just topped desktop sales, and the PPC line doesn't have competitive low power/high...
... The Cell seems really fantastic (but I may be a marketing victim here) - and I rather expected Apple to announce a multi-Cell desktop platform that would...
... Erm, sounds like you need to take your anti-marketing pills :-) Cell is interesting _IFF_ you can program it. The programming model is not just a trivial...
Kyle Hayes
kyle@...
Jun 8, 2005 12:28 am
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... Is it possible on these processors to bypass the x86 emulation layer and pass in instructions directly to the RISC core? If so, perhaps this is an option...
... byzantine and ... From what I understand, all you need to do is avoid writing the complex instructions and stay with the simple ones. The complex ...
... Not as far as I know. The question has been asked in comp.arch and on realworldtech.com and I've never seen a positive answer. I'm fairly sure that Andy...
Kyle Hayes
kyle@...
Jun 8, 2005 4:21 am
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Hi ! ... I chose the red pill ;) ... Good move ;) This was exactly was I was thinking this morning. I am very curious of what kind of languages will be used...
... I'd like to see the use of transparent futures and a smart runtime system based on heuristics to decide whether code is run concurrently or not. Or you...
"Good move ;) This was exactly was I was thinking this morning. I am very curious of what kind of languages will be used for Cell applications... I guess...
I decided to learn more about Intel's Itanium since Apple's announcement to switch to Intel - without comment on which processor line. The Itanium is...
... While there appear to be some good ideas in the processor, having all the good ideas at once is ... interesting. I believe that all current IA64 ...
Kyle Hayes
kyle@...
Jun 19, 2005 9:19 pm
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... Apple's porting guidelines for developers discuss only x86, not Itanium. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ universal_binary/...
... It seems a silly time to switch to a 32bit platform when even laptops are going 64bit. I heard a rumour - was it here? - that Apple were moving to x86...
... Erm, all Intel x86 chips will be 64-bit within a year or so. All Intel x86 chips _except_ the Pentium-M core-based ones are 64 bits now. That is, all the...
Kyle Hayes
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Jun 22, 2005 3:42 pm
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... Erm, what does the statement "Apple will be using x86, not IA64 from Intel" mean then? Will Apple be using out-dated chips or something? As far as I know...
... AMD's 64-bit x86 chips: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_875_7044,00.html Intel's 64-bit x86 chips (comparison for Pentium D,...
Kyle Hayes
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Jun 23, 2005 3:20 am
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... I imagine that you can use more bits for your type tag....
Perhaps these links can clear up the x86 x86-64 confusion: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/24/2057215&tid=142&tid=118&tid=1&tid=137 EM64T and...
"In a desperate attempt to get this on topic, what about 64-bit chips and languages?... In systems with true 64-bit support, it seems like agile languages...
... What do you mean by agile languages? Almost all languages fit as naturally to 64 bits as to 32 bits (except the C/C++/Java/C# family with fixed-size ints...
... That's an interesting read, thanks Patrick. It looks like the Cincom guys are using 3 bits as the tag which allows for 61 bit fixnum, smalldouble, and...
... This was quite interesting. There was a good posting on comp.arch a while ago (two years?) by Anton Ertl about the relative sizes of compiled C binaries...
Kyle Hayes
kyle@...
Jun 24, 2005 2:46 am
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"I always thought that 64 bit platforms would be wonderful for single-address-space operating systems but I've since come to realise that it's all a bit of a...
... To be clear, I did not use that term, I was quoting it. FWIW, had I used the term, I would have included SML, OCaml, Haskell, Clean, and Mercury in the...
... This is what SuperCollider does now. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SuperCollider the NaN trick relies on pointers being 32 bit though. Would have to use some kind...
... Yes, you're ok if you use a "safe" language. The main thing about SASOS is to reduce overheads - particularly that of the process switch and perhaps to...
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