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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