On 10 May 2012 12:38, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 10/05/12 10:18, deadalnix wrote: > >> Le 10/05/2012 06:35, Nick Sabalausky a écrit : >> >>> Really? ARM servers? This is the first I've heard of it. (Intel must be >>> crapping themselves.) >>> >> >> ARM is more energy efficient than x86 . This is a more and more serious >> alternative for datacenters. >> > > Yea, it's in the process of arriving now but is surely going to be a very > big deal -- lower energy consumption, lower heat production (= more densely > packed datacentres), cheaper individual nodes ... > > See e.g.: > http://www.bbc.com/news/**technology-15540910<http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-15540910> > https://www.pcworld.com/**article/249988/hp_to_make_arm_** > servers_available_for_testing_**in_q2.html<https://www.pcworld.com/article/249988/hp_to_make_arm_servers_available_for_testing_in_q2.html> > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/**2012/01/arm-servers-lca/<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/arm-servers-lca/> > > When you also factor in that within a year you're likely to be seeing full > desktop solutions running off ARM-based phone/tablet devices [see e.g. > http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/**android<http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android>] > it should be apparent that ARM is a very important target for D. > > To me, that's a reason as compelling as the licensing issues (if not more > so) why the reference D compiler might want to switch to an alternative > backend. > Amen! :)
