Transitive is real. I have been watching them for several years
waiting for the realization of a commercial application of it. It is
real cool. Checkout their web site. This would make a lot of sense
for Apple. They could switch to different processors at the low,
mid, and high ends without worrying about the low level instruction
set. There is virtually no speed penalty for this for basic
applications. However, if the hardware has special features that
need to be coded directly to enable very special OS level functions,
they would be hard to translate directly. But this would be a tiny
part of the low level OS stuff. For scientific applications in
multiprocessor configurations --I am not sure. But for the normal
stuff we are interested in, this would allow Apple to treat the
processor as just another component --like a different graphics board.
Dennis
On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:22 AM, John Ridge wrote:
BBC News reports "Technology news site The Register also reports
that Apple
has licensed technology from a company called Transitive which makes
software that makes it easier to port programs on to different chip
architectures"
If the current rumours are correct, is Revolution stymied? If, by
magic,
apps developed on any platform can be run without change on any
other, what
need is there for cross-platform tools like Rev?
Still a fascinating IDE, but it's lost a major selling point... Is
Transitive real?
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