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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GPU Acceleration
From: sv_forums@fmethod.com ("Stan Vass")

PHP doesn't have anything significant that would benefit from a GPU right 
now.

As a more realistic goal, (1) APC should become a standard part of the PHP 
distro, and later (2) part of the Zend Engine. Once this is done, (3) the 
next step is JIT, and few months ago there was some work done on LLVM for 
this, but I never heard about it since. And only then, esoteric things like 
running on the GPU can be realistically pondered.

So, long way ahead...

Stan Vass