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From: Douglas Siebert <dsiebert@excis
To: All
Subject: Re: why Cell processor was not
Date:Sat, July 05, 2008 10:41 PM


<xenon360> writes:

>http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23849


> http://xlr8yourmac.com/

>quote:
>"Also, all the cell people and the AMD people need to be quiet. Apple
>evaluated both. AMD has the same, if not worse, supply problems as IBM.
>Their roadmap is fine, but the production capacity is not.


Well, I'd think it'd be about Intel's compiler more than anything, since
by sticking with gcc Mac OS applications will run measurably slower than
Windows applications when running on like hardware. But unless Apple
has dumped that stupid Objective-C stuff, they are locked into gcc. Unless,
of course, Intel adds support for it to their compiler. I guess I wouldn't
be completely surprised if Intel's compiler supports it in the next rev...

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Douglas Siebert dsiebert@excisethis.khamsin.net

"Pure democracy is three wolves and two sheep voting on what to eat for
dinner." -- Benjamin Franklin, on why the US is a Republic and not a Democracy


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