Is it time for open processors?

Re:Is it time for open processors? by IshKebab on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:06AM (#16185190)

A lot of code is, but are you really going to ignore C++, Go, Rust, etc? Most games are written in C++, as are most large desktop apps.

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by pjmlp on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:14AM (#16185625)

All of them quite portable, with enough abstraction libraries available to make it a moot point, unless I really want to dive into details.

The only programming language I actually do have care about the underlying OS is C, due to its dependency on POSIX as an extension of ANSI libc.

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by tathougies on Sunday January 21, 2018 @01:15AM (#16197082)

C++ is fairly straightforward to port across architectures, especially since most architectures today are going to be 64-bit or more.

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by slrz on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:54PM (#16188198)

And you can be sure that every new ISA will have a port of GCC and LLVM, a Go compiler and everything else that's worthwile.

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