> Given that a Nvidia GPu is fast at processing maths, textures, graphics, im > not sure how that helps execute bytecode. Yes it can do normal stuff found > in most cpus, but how well. My guess is that is nothign stellar as someone > would have built a general purpose computing device ontop iof them instead > of buying chips from Intel. The impressive processing is only in the area of > graphics and not general purpose computing which is quite different and > "boring".
Agreed, though I would phrase it "unpredictable". Vast amount of circuity in a general purpose CPU is devoted to branch prediction, cache and other optimizations for keeping the pipeline saturated and relevant. AMD is showing some pretty interesting stuff with their APU's [http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1039], though I don't think we'd ever be able to summon the help of stream processors for other than obvious parallel coding/decoding tasks. AFAIK IBM's Cell CPU proved to be really hard to utilize as well, in spite of the core target being a relatively uniform game platform. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
