From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:15:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiDQAZQYpUM9fJ8pHcE_WD7Y+itKnutXSAxhNLXRAwb51w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ka5brs$hbj$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant:
>>
>>> It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone
>>> think this won't happen?
>>
>> no
>>
>> two reasons:
>>
>> not enough power
>> does not run x86 software
>>
>> the second one is a real deal breaker.
>
> Only until somebody invents some sort of scheme where you can write a
> program using a source language that isn't tied directly to the
> processor architecture. Then you'd be able to build programs (or even
> OS kernels) so that they'd run on a variety of CPU architectures!
You speak in jest, but this is now the case for most of the
applications people use...
Even for legacy binaries, the solution has trended towards sticking
the thing in a VM and accessing it over the network.
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-10 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-09 3:25 [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world? Grant
2012-12-09 3:51 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-09 19:24 ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-09 19:53 ` Marc Joliet
2012-12-11 2:00 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 13:45 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-09 3:52 ` microcai
2012-12-09 8:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-09 21:44 ` Grant
2012-12-10 5:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-09 23:23 ` Grant
2012-12-10 3:06 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-12-10 5:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 15:46 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-12-10 18:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-10 19:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 19:15 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-12-10 19:33 ` Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 19:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 20:06 ` Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 20:20 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-10 20:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 21:10 ` Grant
2012-12-10 21:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 21:33 ` Grant
2012-12-10 21:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-12 17:05 ` James
2012-12-12 17:26 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-12 17:55 ` James
2012-12-12 18:40 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-13 5:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-13 6:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-12-13 14:10 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-13 0:33 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 1:00 ` Grant
2012-12-13 11:24 ` Kevin Chadwick
2012-12-13 13:37 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 18:29 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-14 17:13 ` Walter Dnes
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