getting armed

[Jay Vaughan]

> Yeah J, it's true, new DSPs are designed to be much more compiler friendly, although even with a compiler successfully humming away, this still leaves the business of how the two cores communicate, and one is left with a communication structure that takes time to design and implement, and which again, leaves the code unportable.
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Meh, shared memory ftw.  No trickier than a mutex or lock-less threads.


> Writing for ARM (ie generic 32-bit CPU with a decent turn of speed) opens up the code to run anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

True, but don't discount the fact that putting two functions in C code to be run on the DSP alongside something else with shared buffers can mean all the difference in the world.  There's an awful lot of media being played back through ARM DSP's already.  You don't think those OMAP-using Samsung TV's aren't putting DSP to good, honest, productive use already?

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Jay Vaughan