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I am not aware of that work from Oracle, but it would be interesting to talk with those folks! Our main focus has been x86, although there are interesting alte

I am not aware of that work from Oracle, but it would be interesting to talk with those folks! Our main focus has been x86, although there are interesting alternative platforms.

Quequau 9y ago
Hey thanks for the response. I am not a sparc developer, so I can't really point you in the right direction with any certainty. I did a quick web search for the buzzwords they were using in the HotChips presentation ("Software in Silicon") and found this link, which has the slides from the talk among a whole lot of other stuff. My expectation is that you guys might find the database / analytics acceleration stuff of interest. https://community.oracle.com/community/server_%26_storage_systems/application_development_in_c__c%2B%2B__and_fortran/softwareinsilicon/overview https://community.oracle.com/community/server_%26_storage_sy... Anyway, my question was motivated by a desire to inform my nebulous thesis that getting developers, even really smart devs working for major corporations with deep pockets, to target specialized hardware or to do optimization beyond getting code to compile with a favorite compiler is really difficult. My follow on theory is that this is going to create some interesting tension as hardware developers are increasingly motivated to do these sorts of things as Moore's law runs out of steam.