"dsimcha" <dsim...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:im8pu5$1921$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 3/21/2011 7:55 PM, nedbrek wrote: >> >> The main architectures (x86 and ARM) are both byte granular. Most >> embedded >> platforms are also byte granular. Alpha is the only architecture I am >> aware >> of that had this problem. Possibly other old/high performance ones... >> (Cray, 360, etc.) >> > > Excellent. I highly doubt we care about std.parallelism working on > embedded platforms. (Who the heck has a multicore embedded CPU anyway?) >
Parallax's Propeller microcontroller has 8 cores. But it's so low-memory that I doubt D would be appropriate for it. Someone did manage to make a C compiler for it, but even that involved some compromises (although not as many as the Propeller's built-in SPIN language).