Hello, all ... So I read with great interest the recent Dr. Dobbs article about Cell programming. I came away from that article with two thoughts -- "wow, that thing is fast" and "eek, for all the code changes that needed to be made to get it to perform that well, cross-platform source is out the window". So, my question is simple: Is the IBM XL C/C++ alpha compiler for Cell (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ cellcompiler/faq) the "Octopiler" i've read about, and if so, is this the version that runs on YDL on PS3?
My thing being cross-platform source (we may be tasked with porting some code we wrote, that currently runs on Windows x86, Linux x86 and Linux / OSX PPC, to the PS3), i'm interested in how well the IBM Cell compiler does the auto-parallelism and auto-SIMD thing, and if this is the same IBM Cell compiler that will run under YDL on the PS3. Regards, John Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound http://www.fallingyou.com _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
