Re: GPU Acceleration

Hi: On 12 Nov 2010, at 16:35, Scott MacVicar wrote: > Do you have a patch for this? The only thing stopping it is no one had written it. >> So, I'd thank you for *constructive* answers. *sigh* He was asking for constructive answers. Kenan, I guess the most viable approach to go in such a direction is to look at something like HipHop[1] or any other PHP compilation approach. The problem is to find an appropriate workload for the GPU. There is high overhead involved in starting up code on a GPU and typical PHP workloads aren't a good match at all. At least if you stay in the Web app/DB-bound application area. Best regards Stefan [1] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php [2] http://www.phpcompiler.org/ -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 2974 Fax: +32 2 629 3525