On Oct 24, 2007, at 15:29, Adrien wrote:
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.