Re: SAINT on the web

From: Giorgio Zoia (Giorgio.Zoia@epfl.ch)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 07:40:11 EDT


At 12:56 PM 9/22/99 +0200, Dap wrote:
>So if I understand correctly, the SAOL compiler will do all the compilation
>and instruction scheduling stuff for the Trimedia!!!!?

Yes and no. I forgot an important word: "virtual" compiler. It will generate
virtual code that will be interpreted in the TriMedia, it will not generate
VLIW optimized code (but vectorial anyway). Sorry for this mistake.

>I've heard Philips spend many man-year on the Trimedia compiler, because
>instruction scheduling for a VLIW processor isn't easy.

And so we will try to exploit their work, not do it again :-))

>When do you plan to finish your software?

The part that will be shared is almost complete, it needs clean-up, test,
etc... The platform dependent (TM) stuff will be developed in the next year
but,
as I said in the first e-mail with this subject, the source code will not be
released.

Best regards,

        Giorgio

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