From: Gordon Henriksen <gordonhenriksen@mac.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on ppc64 (Linux)?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:13:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15E07C83-B071-40B2-9748-764D1F51DB47@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666572260710241229r3b9c63cdjf78fbd710d5664a1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Oct 24, 2007, at 15:29, Adrien wrote:
> 2007/10/24, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>:
>
>> Then someone told me that the Playstation 3 is a PPC64/Linux
>> platform... I'm still not quite sure whether having OCaml on
>> PPC64/Linux is worth the effort, even if we had the corresponding
>> hardware.
>
> PlayStation3's processor (the Cell) has some parenty with powerpc
> but it mostly has differences (cell is a ppc6). It has many cores
> and in fact a variable number of more-or-less specialized cores.
> It's a sort of revolution because its SMP capabilities are really
> different from thos of a Core2Duo or of an Athlon64X2. I think
> there is at least a theorical interest as it seems to perfectly fit
> simultaneous processing (but maybe not so close).
The SPUs are quite unique, but the PPU (the likely target of an Ocaml
implementation) is a fairly ordinary PowerPC.
— Gordon
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 16:52 Richard Jones
2007-10-24 18:33 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2007-10-24 19:29 ` Adrien
2007-10-24 21:13 ` Gordon Henriksen [this message]
2007-10-24 22:08 ` Christophe Raffalli
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