Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Jun 2008 23:37 UTC
We're continuing our detailed coverage of all the bits and pieces dripping from the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Fransisco. As you all might recall, Apple bought a chip company called P.A. Semi not too long ago, a maker of low-power PowerPC chips, fuelling rumours Apple might use them in its own products such as the iPhone and iPod. This has now been confirmed by His Steveness himself.
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Anyone know what the potential response from the other 90% of the software market is? Does this announcement even warrant a response or is it just some basic tools with a lot of hype?
For instance, how does it compare to Intel's Thread Building Blocks library (www.threadingbuildingblocks.org), which was open sourced (GPLv2) last year? It is described as "C++ template library that simplifies the development of software applications running in parallel."
I haven't found any information on the OS community's stance on this OpenCL language. Anyone know anything here? Would any software on a default install of a Linux distro (or OS X, for that matter) have a use for this?