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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by Pet_Ant on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:30AM (#27232329)
SPARC is open and not only that Sun shared some actual cores that were used in production. I don’t know why Power gets mentioned but SPARC doesn’t.
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by patrec on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:40AM (#27232399)
Probably because few would consider Sparc promising, since, unlike Power and certainly Risc-V, it's pretty much dead?
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by lizknope on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:56AM (#27233429)
Picking a CPU is not just about the CPU architecture. It is mainly about the ecosystem around that processor. ARM has a huge amount of IP, bus fabrics, compilers, operating systems, boot loaders, and people you can hire with knowledge of all of that. There are far more people out there with ARM experience than SPARC. I don't really see anybody interested in POWER outside of IBM and the chips they sell.
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