Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50171 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 18908 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2010 16:09:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Nov 2010 16:09:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=php@stefan-marr.de; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=php@stefan-marr.de; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain stefan-marr.de from 85.88.12.247 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: php@stefan-marr.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.88.12.247 toolslave.net Received: from [85.88.12.247] ([85.88.12.247:41482] helo=uhweb12247.united-hoster.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7C/90-09586-FC66DDC4 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:09:53 -0500 Received: from [134.184.43.20] by uhweb12247.united-hoster.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGwC6-0003zz-IO; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:09:47 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <8E77FAA0-A827-4BA2-8800-7DBF0F3C8D79@macvicar.net> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:09:41 +0100 Cc: Kenan Sulayman , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <8E77FAA0-A827-4BA2-8800-7DBF0F3C8D79@macvicar.net> To: Scott MacVicar X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GPU Acceleration From: php@stefan-marr.de (Stefan Marr) Hi: On 12 Nov 2010, at 16:35, Scott MacVicar wrote: > Do you have a patch for this? The only thing stopping it is no one had = written it. >> So, I'd thank you for *constructive* answers. *sigh* He was asking for constructive answers. Kenan, I guess the most viable approach to go in such a direction is to = look at something like HipHop[1] or any other PHP compilation approach. The problem is to find an appropriate workload for the GPU. There is high overhead involved in starting up code on a GPU and typical = PHP workloads aren't a good match at all. At least if you stay in the = Web app/DB-bound application area. Best regards Stefan [1] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php [2] http://www.phpcompiler.org/ --=20 Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 2974 Fax: +32 2 629 3525