Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50181 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61562 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2010 15:28:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Nov 2010 15:28:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=jonah.harris@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=jonah.harris@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.82.170 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: jonah.harris@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.82.170 mail-wy0-f170.google.com Received: from [74.125.82.170] ([74.125.82.170:64052] helo=mail-wy0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FB/11-34671-48EAEDC4 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:28:04 -0500 Received: by wyb38 with SMTP id 38so3449593wyb.29 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:28:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=LOqz5EXNlb0YPbFycjr9/7LOD8eve2Rwk98MIglq4O4=; b=rTEXXmdPvILJ/54EGJbYYIfEmcRe9WfuK8nueG87fRbqwgv5cGpcommkF+vWVlUNdv JInmEoLBCQ7pthWpAPpvw6pTwEOjPknC/hCKCK6U6LGfY4ps2aKdePl5ZUgiytR3B2kq eXs3GmVoktTa8V5ShuH9X5scJJaxXNKUOMpf8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=vjcNe+dLvDtFhr+vof9qBbq6B9cs7MrvetF8EAtk7yP5jMmXfwA0sb8SGHTKhi9RKo NJkOGqGv6rBZscQkRlSM6GES8Zy1bw0+o6ujs+Lanhq3hiV8JfyD0X7iPfUhcLwZpY9s UuzTa9rWtgzOSUnsMMD9KRA4Jfyswosqd57Ck= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.134.201 with SMTP id k9mr3846728wbt.177.1289662080726; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:28:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.29.100 with HTTP; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:28:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:28:00 -0500 Message-ID: To: Stan Vass Cc: James Butler , Andi Gutmans , Scott MacVicar , Stefan Marr , Kenan Sulayman , PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016367f9fb033b8240494f0dab5 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GPU Acceleration From: jonah.harris@gmail.com ("Jonah H. Harris") --0016367f9fb033b8240494f0dab5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Stan Vass wrote: > 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... > Agreed. -- Jonah H. Harris Blog: http://www.oracle-internals.com/ --0016367f9fb033b8240494f0dab5--