[Arm-netbook] [review] SoC proposal

[Gordan Bobic]

On 02/09/2012 06:16 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones<tonyg at ccs.neu.edu>  wrote:
>> On 02/09/2012 11:56 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> The downside is that you need a damn good compiler to leverage it - and
>>> GCC isn't it.
>>
>> This is where Nile/Gezira come in: you actually need more than a damn
>> good compiler, you need a better language - and C isn't it.
>
>   hm.... food for thought there.  with all these companies struggling
> to make a dent in the theoretical performance (as gordan points
> out)...

There are two issues with that:

1) Are you seriously expecting the entire application stack to be 
re-written from C to something else?

2) C compilers that can do this have been successfully written (Intel 
ICC/XE can do both vectorization and parallelization of code). So 
clearly the problem isn't in the language.

Gordan