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FPGAs really wouldn't help much. The theoretical gains sound good, but frankly, the practical speed of a cpu is measured by how fast it can run crappy code. FPG
by Tuna-Fish 15y ago
FPGAs really wouldn't help much. The theoretical gains sound good, but frankly, the practical speed of a cpu is measured by how fast it can run crappy code. FPGA in a cpu would just be a pointless waste of silicon that almost nobody would program for.
Application-specific hardware is already being added to the cpus -- the newest Intel ones have a hardware RNG and hardware video encoders and decoders.
- bnegreve 15y ago"already" ? GPUs are almost hardware implementations of directX/openGL APIs and it is not new.
- rhino42 15y agoThere's a team at UC-Berkeley which is working on compiling C++ to a combination of CPU/GPU/FPGA code right now, which might change things. I think you need a special architecture to take full advantage of it though.