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FPGAs are impractical. They are designed for integration and custom design rather than performance. Any data processing tasks are probably not worth it. Inte
by smithjchris 17y ago
FPGAs are impractical. They are designed for integration and custom design rather than performance. Any data processing tasks are probably not worth it. Intel i7 series CPUs are probably a better investment as they have native text-processing instructions!
- Andys 17y agoI just found a benchmark on Intel's site that shows the effect of enabling the text processing instructions in SSE4.2. They claim a 25% speedup for XML parsing and 37% for XML validating.