Comments on: The Hunt for a Universal Compiler Gets $16M http://gigaom.com/2009/04/07/the-hunt-for-a-universal-compiler-gets-16m/ Tue, 21 May 2013 22:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Henrik Bach http://gigaom.com/2009/04/07/the-hunt-for-a-universal-compiler-gets-16m/#comment-166809 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:15:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=45047#comment-166809 The viable and becoming popular open source project LLVM llvm.org from the University of Illinois, seems to accomplish the goals set forth for this project, today.

Yes, it will of cause be interesting to see the details of PACE project to understand the differences.

]]> By: Dmitry Tkachev http://gigaom.com/2009/04/07/the-hunt-for-a-universal-compiler-gets-16m/#comment-166808 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:04:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=45047#comment-166808 Optimitech company has already been providing a technology which tries to solve universal compiler problem.

It is said in the article “…a planned compiler will look at the source code of the application and attempt to partition it automatically to run on the multicore processors…”

And here we have Auto-Parallelizer from Optimitech http://www.optimitech.com/004.htm which is built on top of their Universal Translating Library (UTL) http://www.optimitech.com/003.htm

It is said in the article “…developing custom code for each platform is expensive, time-consuming…the process can take some 3-5 years”

A compiler based on Optimitech UTL library for CellBE architecture was accomplished within 6 months.

It will be interesting to see the details of PACE project to understand the difference.

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