That would be really cool: I loved the Mips we had at YorkU.ca
--dave
I really don't know a whole heck of a lot about where mips is going. Certainly they remain strong in the embedded market (I do like the edgerouter X a lot), but as for their current direction or future product lines, not a clue. I used to know someone over there, maybe he's restored new directions. Last I recall he was busy obsoleting a whole lot of instruction space in order to make room for "new stuff". He'd even asked me if adding an invsqrt to the instruction set would help, and I sadly replied that that bit of codel was totally invisible on a trace..... I really like(d) mips. ton of registers, better instruction set than arm (IMHO), no foolish processor extensions. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:26 AM David Collier-Brown <davec-b@rogers.com> wrote:On 2018-11-28 11:55 a.m., Dave Taht wrote:Thank you for that. I do have a long standing dream of a single chip wifi router, with the lowest SNR possible, and the minimum number of pins coming off of it. I'd settle for 32MB of (static?) ram on chip as that has proven sufficient to date to drive 802.11n.... which would let you get rid of both the L2 and L1 cache. That said, I think the cost of 32MB of on-chip static ram remains a bit high, and plugging it into a mips cpu, kind of silly. Someday there will be a case to just doing everything on a single chip, but...I could see 32MB or more of fast memory on-chip as being attractive when one is fighting with diminishing returns in CPU speed and program parallelizability. In the past that might have excited MIPS, but these days less so. Maybe ARM? IBM? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
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