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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As far as I understand OpenCL is oriented at GPU-based acceleration. In the area of parallel processing a lot of interesting work is going on in the development community. For instance, OpenMP (supported by the latest gcc versions and Visual Studio) is being adopted steadily. I did not have time to try it extensively yet, but from a quick glance it seems to make parallelization over constructs like loops fairly easy. Other interesting work is carried out in parallelization of the C++ standard library, e.g. in GNU libstdc++.
Wrt. to OpenCL: I read some rumors that Apple wants OpenCL to become a standard, so with a bit of luck they will make the source available.