Consoles display images at half the resolution that most PC users are running games at these days, thereby needing only a 1/4 of the VRAM for the frame buffer. The textures can also be a lot smaller as well.
Good performance? With 2 processors at 1GHz and an issue rate of 4 instructions per-cycle, it could supposedly execute 8 billion instructions per second. However, it does say it only supports in-order execution, so its probably never going to get anywhere near this...
Should that not be asynchronous multi-processing. An asymmmetric MP system is one where CPUs are dedicated to specific tasks. E.g. one CPU is used for the O/S, another for I/O and another for user applications. (A SMP system being one that can run any process on any CPU).
My wife is pregnant and due very shortly. Naturally, we're both geeks and are always looking for ways to help the Open Source community. What would happen if we were to name our child using selected parts of the DeCSS source code? Admitedly, weddings and funerals might be a problem, but other than that, I'm sure we'd manage (After all, these should both be many years off). Would the local hospital records department end up getting sued?
Part of a project I was involed with at Bristol University involved partitioning caches. See Here. This techniques essentially exposes the cache at the application level. Programs can configure the cache into many partitions each of a different size. When accessing memory, a program specifies which partition the access should be performed through. This approach has many benefits (no interference, deterministic performance to mention but two), but also has the effect that only the required amount of cache is used, thus saving power. It would be interesting to see these two techiniques combined.
Sorry, but I can't see any real advantage of using Linux. It's just a kernel, what difference does it really make? What you're talking about here is the quality of tools available, and thanks to projects such as CygWin, just about everything your talking about can be used quite happily under Windows.
Apart from the fact that Windows NT has a POSIX subsystem (which I dont think anyone really uses), most of the GNU Unix like stuff has been ported to Windows as part of the CygWin project.
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Consoles display images at half the resolution that most PC users are running games at these days, thereby needing only a 1/4 of the VRAM for the frame buffer. The textures can also be a lot smaller as well.
For a world-wode patent, you're probably looking at about $70k
Good performance? With 2 processors at 1GHz and an issue rate of 4 instructions per-cycle, it could supposedly execute 8 billion instructions per second. However, it does say it only supports in-order execution, so its probably never going to get anywhere near this...
Should that not be asynchronous multi-processing. An asymmmetric MP system is one where CPUs are dedicated to specific tasks. E.g. one CPU is used for the O/S, another for I/O and another for user applications. (A SMP system being one that can run any process on any CPU).
Doesn't Intel own several important patents regarding SMP for x86 systems?
My wife is pregnant and due very shortly. Naturally, we're both geeks and are always looking for ways to help the Open Source community. What would happen if we were to name our child using selected parts of the DeCSS source code? Admitedly, weddings and funerals might be a problem, but other than that, I'm sure we'd manage (After all, these should both be many years off). Would the local hospital records department end up getting sued?
Part of a project I was involed with at Bristol University involved partitioning caches. See Here. This techniques essentially exposes the cache at the application level. Programs can configure the cache into many partitions each of a different size. When accessing memory, a program specifies which partition the access should be performed through. This approach has many benefits (no interference, deterministic performance to mention but two), but also has the effect that only the required amount of cache is used, thus saving power. It would be interesting to see these two techiniques combined.
Hope about spending some time with your kid and surfing the Web with them?
Sorry, but I can't see any real advantage of using Linux. It's just a kernel, what difference does it really make? What you're talking about here is the quality of tools available, and thanks to projects such as CygWin, just about everything your talking about can be used quite happily under Windows.
Apart from the fact that Windows NT has a POSIX subsystem (which I dont think anyone really uses), most of the GNU Unix like stuff has been ported to Windows as part of the CygWin project.
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin