Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC, submitted by Aron Allen
"SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn't the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple's embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the Mac maker last week was LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure project. Like SproutCore, LLVM is neither new nor secret, but both have been hiding from attention due to a thick layer of complexity that has obscured their future potential."
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2007-09-28
The interesting thing about LLVM is that OpenCL probably is based on it. So, writing code for your GPU is the same as writing code for the host CPUs (maybe even in ObjC). The OS can then dispatch the code after JIT compilation to an appropriate processing unit. Maybe this is the breakthrough in multicore Apple announced. That means, they can dispatch the same code to a heterogeneous processing unit infrastructure.
Edited 2008-06-21 13:03 UTC