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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga DSP Boards.
Message-ID: <1400@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 27 Nov 90 23:22:24 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.161034.25281@sisd.kodak.com> <1990Nov21.013237.4623@ameristar> <1390@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <1990Nov27.020113.13352@ameristar>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <1990Nov27.020113.13352@ameristar> rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
>	DSP's are yet fast enough that they can run some standard threaded 
>	language or interpreted instruction set that would abstract the 
>	basic machine in a useful way.  Much the same way as the Amiga is 
>	wedded to the 680x0 instruction set, a standard DSP must be settled 
>	on if we are ever to see a rich application set emerge.

Well, that depends. Most current DSPs are as fast as they are because
of their use of parallelism. I don't think that an abstract language
can benefit much from this unless you have a _very_ smart compiler which
has yet to be built. I'm using a DSP but I'd sacrify more than 50% of its
performance if I didn't make use of this parallelism.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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