From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Nice toy
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:30:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190911131830q307d40ceod0f048c80fac5b85@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Any one tried a Asus Eee PC T91? I claim it is the best outta the box
$500 computer available (this week anyway). I'm scribbling on it as I
speak. Touch/Swivel/Tablet screen, All the usual stuff and gps and tv
tuner and ... lotsa stuff I haven't played with. I can't keep up with
the eee port.
Totally of topic.
MP Inferno is going well. The new chips have been released. 64 cores
now. Still waiting for the CAD tools to fit it on the chips. It'll be
finished in 3 hours. If you like fun and have talent you can write
functions in restricted C and it generates VHDL to add custom
instructions, and the tools are very good - simple example being that
a memmove instruction is ten times faster than the best you can write
in asm or c. Anyone interested in this please e-mail me (off list). A
brucee example is for the Heap processor there is now a "find first
block of size N, coalescing as you go" instruction. 20 times speedup.
This is exciting (to me) but I don't have time for the obvious
optimizations. You don't need the hardware either ..~$500. The
emulators/simulators are enough. And if you know Modelsim you can
simulate the 4 chip board.
brucee
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2009-11-14 2:30 Bruce Ellis [this message]
2009-11-17 15:55 ` Sam Watkins
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