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Anyone played w/ a Propeller?

• wtracy 16y ago
  From what I've heard (I have a friend who tried to build a Propeller-based embedded system) it's a miserable architecture to code for. It assumes that you're using either assembler or the proprietary "Spin" language. The accessible memory space is small enough to break the code generated by C compilers; the only solution I know of involves a mini-hypervisor that can swaps data in and out of memory. It also doesn't support interrupts. Their solution? Dedicate an entire core to busy-waiting for a hardware ready signal. o_O
  • joshu 16y ago
    Ugh. Oh well.