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Targeting Green Arrays Processors
- From: Stephen Hatton <pikpik dot 1010 at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:14:31 -0400
- Subject: Targeting Green Arrays Processors
- References: <AANLkTikuaxc48G-EdkHkuQDyRyITPlmPWQu-TwfnT31q@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a bad idea of anything, but I'm interested in
running C/C++ programs on the processors by the GreenArrays, Inc.
company.
What I've read by them suggests that:
a. Their processors have caches which are very small,
b. The company is testing a method of streaming larger programs into
the processors during execution,
c. The processors run a dialect of Forth natively as an instruction
set (not binary?), and
d. "Virtual machines"/run-time engines could be made to implement
other languages, such as C.
Source:?http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/WP002-100405-energycons.pdf
Website:?http://greenarrays.com/
How would GCC (and other compilers?) target these processors, and is
this a good idea?
Thank you,
Stephen Hatton