Re: Taking advantage of clusters or multi CPUs?

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:27:19 +0000 (UTC), Dimitri Maziuk
<dima@xxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

if you could bypass everything
including on-chip instruction pipeline & parallelizer and get
direct access to chip's cores. Definitely not in Java, for
obvious reasons.

most chips nowadays come with one or more specialised auxiliary
processors, DSPs which are a sort of miniature array processor. These
are primarily intended for video or audio processing. You might see
Java using them, but only a in a native method. The most common place
you see them used are in CODECs.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/dsp.html


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