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Re: Ideas for Google Summer of Code
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Ross Ridge <rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:12:51 -0700
- Subject: Re: Ideas for Google Summer of Code
- References: <20090330203614.7B1DD73D33@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:36:14PM -0700, Ross Ridge wrote:
> Joe Buck writes:
> >I'm having trouble finding that document, I don't see a link to it
> >on that page. Maybe I'm missing something obvious?
>
> Sticking "nvidia ptx" into Google turned up this document:
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1195170102263.html
>
> It's an intermediate language, so isn't tied to any particular NVIDIA GPU.
> I beleive there's something similar for AMD/ATI GPUs.
>
> btw. The computational power of Intel's integrated GPUs is pretty dismal,
> so I don't think GCC port targetting them would be very useful.
True for what they are shipping now, but Larrabee should change that.