Hans-Peter Diettrich schrieb:
Jeppe Johansen schrieb:
I would be interested in knowing whether it would be feasible to
create DSP backends for FPC. I recently had the experience of using a
TMS320C26 which probably has to be programmed in assembler due to the
limits of the instruction set. But I hear newer DSPs use instruction
sets geared alot more towards highlevel compilers
This IMO would require new language elements, for parallel/vector
operations, dedicated libraries, or *very* clever optimizers. A
general-purpose language like Pascal is not suited for coding DSP
operations.
FPC has already basic MMX support by allowing operations on appropriate
arrays so DSP support could be added based on such approach or just
using intrinsics.
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