RE: [PHP-DEV] GPU Acceleration
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:28:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] GPU Acceleration | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott MacVicar [mailto:scott@macvicar.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 8:22 AM
> To: Stefan Marr
> Cc: Kenan Sulayman; PHP internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GPU Acceleration
>
> What's not constructive about it? Seems pretty constructive to me. The original
> poster has done research into the issue already.
What research are you referring to? I must have missed that.
There's no magic with GPUs. There are good reasons why few applications/infrastructure
components use them. GPUs can be useful for very specific workloads but not necessarily general
purpose app server.
Btw there are also some workloads that could benefit from leveraging some of the x86 extensions
around encryption, vector computation, ...
So it boils down to being more specific re: where you think it could benefit and why.
Andi
> The reason most things don't exist is that no one has a patch for it. If it doesn't
> core in core then it heads into a PECL module or lives as a patch on some site.